Robert Knecht

Robert Jean Knecht (20 September 1926 – 4 November 2023) was a British historian, an expert on 16th-century France, and Emeritus Professor of French history at the University of Birmingham, where he taught during 1956–1994.

Knecht died on 4 November 2023, at the age of 97.

List of publications 1959: The Voyage of Sir Nicolas Carewe to the Emperor Charles V in the year 1529, edited from the British Museum manuscript (Egerton 3315, by ) with introduction and notes by R. J. Knecht. Cambridge: Printed for the Roxburghe Club at the University Press. 116 pages. . 1969: Francis I and Absolute Monarchy. London: Historical Association. 31 pages. . . 1975: The Fronde. London: Historical Association. 30 pages. . 1986: The Fronde, revised edition. London: Historical Association. 33 pages. . 1982: Francis I. London; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 480 pages. . . 1984: French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and Henry II. London: Longman. 123 pages. . . 8th impression, 1995: . 1996: French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and Henry II, second edition. London; New York: Longman. 145 pages. . . 1989: The French Wars of Religion, 1559–1599. London; New York: Longman. 153 pages. . . Online: Milton: Taylor & Francis, 3rd edition, 2010, 209 pages. Online: Routledge, 2014. 1991: Richelieu. London; New York: Longman. 259 pages. . . 1994: Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I [expanded and revised version of Francis I]. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 612 pages. . . 1998: Un prince de la Renaissance. François Ier et son royaume, translated into French by Patrick Hersant. Paris: Fayard. . . 1996: The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483–1610. London: Fontana. 668 pages. . . 2001: The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483–1610, second edition. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell. 591 pages. . . 1997: Catherine de' Medici. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education. 340 pages. . London; New York: Longman, 1998. 340 pages. . . 2003: Catherine De Médicis (1519–1589), translated into French by Sarah Leclerq. Brussels: Le Cri. 346 pages. . . 2000: The French Civil Wars, 1562–1598. Harlow: Longman. 341 pages. . . 2002: The French Religious Wars, 1562–1598. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Limited. 95 pages. . . 2004: The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 276 pages. . . Online (restricted access). 2007: The Valois: Kings of France 1328–1589, second edition. London: Hambledon Continuum. 276 pages. . . 2008: The French Renaissance Court, 1483–1589, New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 415 pages. . . 2014: Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574–89, Ashgate. . London: Routledge, 2016. 356 pages. . .