Want to know more about the badass women of history? Before there was Joan of Arc, there was a Jeanne. Multiple Jeannes. Honestly, maybe too many Jeannes. Enter Jeanne de Clisson, a Breton noble who burned through estates, out-lasted three husbands, and forged a single, razor-sharp goal: annihilating France’s King Philip VI. After watching her third spouse lose his head on a Paris scaffold, Jeanne sold everything, bought a fleet, painted the hulls midnight-black and the sails blood-red, and roamed the Channel as the “Lioness of Brittany,” leaving one terrified survivor to spread her legend. From grieving widow to pirate admiral with her two young sons at her side, she became medieval Europe’s nightmare on crimson canvas. The real history-mystery? How a woman who sank French warships for thirteen years and may have invented the glowing-up, revenge-tour genre still sails beneath most textbooks’ radars. Get on board with this literal killer queen of history, and prepare to reevaluate every high-school lesson that told you women in armor start and end with Joan.

00:00:00 Catch-Up

00:33:17 Mom Jeannes

00:45:44 Olivier’s Doom

01:05:38 Second-Wife Revenge

01:40:40 Pirate Parenting

02:00:48 Raft of Last Resort

02:06:54 Fourth Time’s the Charm

02:15:10 Wrap-Up & Why We Laughed

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