Wrong, ‘the crusade settled nothing no burdens were lightened by it and many were heavier’. Norman Housley calls his military actions ‘humiliating’ to May McKisack the crusade was ‘deplorable’, ‘a total failure’ while to George M. There he met a quick defeat, first at the hands of the besieged Yprois and then by running away from the opportunity of fighting the Franco–Burgundian armies led by Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy. Ostensibly launching a crusade in 1383 against the heretical followers of the ‘anti-pope’, Clement VII (pope in Avignon), on behalf of the ‘true’ pope, Urban VI (pope in Rome), he is vilified for leading his forces instead against the supporters of Urban in the southern Low Countries, along the coast of Flanders and at Ypres.
Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich, is generally thought of as one of the most celebrated losers of the Hundred Years War.
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