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Book 1
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Grandes Chroniques de France interpolations
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Book 2
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Book 3
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Book 4
- (SHF § 0) Prologue to Book I.
- (SHF § 1) The reign of Edward II [1307–1327].
- (SHF § 2) Half-siblings of Edward II; his children.
- (SHF § 3) Children of King Philip the Fair of France. The succession to the French throne under the last Capetians [1314–1328].
Accession of King Philip VI of Valois [April 1328]; Isabelle of France, queen of England, and her son Edward passed over in
the succession.
- (SHF § 4) Reign of King Edward II. The influence of Hugh Despenser the younger. Defeat by the Scots and King Robert the Bruce
at the Battle of Bannockburn [24 June 1314]. Opposition against Despenser by the barons led by Thomas, earl of Lancaster.
- (SHF § 5) The earl of Lancaster and 21 other barons beheaded on the orders of Edward II and Despenser. Queen Isabella of France,
with her son young Edward, her brother-in-law the earl of Kent, and Roger Mortimer flee to France out of fear for Hugh Despenser
the younger.
- (SHF § 6) They arrive in Boulogne-sur-Mer and then travel to Paris via Amiens. The queen explains her predicament to her brother
King Charles IV of France.
- (SHF § 7) Queen Isabella is promised support by her brother. She stays in France and receives requests from her supporters
in England to invade the country. Hugh Despenser convinces King Charles IV to cease his support for his sister against her
husband, Edward II.
- (SHF § 8) Queen Isabella is advised to leave France. She goes to Hainault and is received at the Castle of Bugnicourt. John
of Hainault, lord of Beaumont and brother of the count of Hainault, goes to meet her.
- (SHF § 9) John of Hainault promises military support to Queen Isabella.
- (SHF § 10) Queen Isabella and John of Hainault travel to Valenciennes, where the count of Hainault and his wife are staying.
The count tries to convince his brother to change his mind.
- (SHF § 11) Queen Isabella, John of Hainault and their followers embark in Dordrecht. The troops land on the Essex coast at
Orwell.
- (SHF § 12) Queen Isabella’s English supporters join the invading army. They advance to Bristol, where the king and his supporters
are.
- (SHF § 13) The Bristolians hand over Hugh Despenser the elder and the earl of Arundel to Queen Isabella.
- (SHF § 14) Hugh Despenser the elder and the earl of Arundel are sentenced and executed.
- (SHF § 15) King Edward II and Hugh Despenser the younger try to escape by boat to Wales but are captured.
- (SHF § 16) Queen Isabella and her son seize power from King Edward II.
- (SHF § 17) It is decided that King Edward II will be emprisoned in Berkeley Castle; Hugh Despenser the younger is taken to
Hereford.
- (SHF § 18) Hugh Despenser the younger is executed in Hereford.
- (SHF § 19) The queen asks John of Hainault to stay with her, but most of John’s retinue go back to the Low Countries.
- (SHF § 20) A general Parliament is held and it is decided that King Edward II’s eldest son be crowned as king of England.
- (SHF § 21) Edward III is crowned king of England. John of Hainault leaves England to take part in a tournament at Condé.
- (SHF § 22) Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, declares war on Edward III.
- (SHF § 23) Edward III assembles his troops in York on Ascension day (21 May 1327). John of Hainault joins the king and his
mother at York.
- (SHF § 24) John of Hainault brings knights from Hainault, Flanders, Brabant and the Hesbaye.
- (SHF § 25) The King and Queen hold separate solemn courts for the knights and ladies in the Franciscan monastery in York for
the feast of the Trinity (7 June 1327). After dinner a fight between some Hainault squires and English archers escalates into
a violent clash. Many archers, all from the diocese of Lincoln, are killed.
- (SHF § 26) Edward III and his army stay at York, where provisions are cheap and plentiful.
- (SHF § 27) The army then moves into Northumberland; Carlisle is defended by Welsh troops.
- (SHF § 28) How the Scots feed themselves while on campaign. Robert the Bruce before his death instituted Thomas Randolph,
earl of Moray, and James Douglas, as guardians of Scotland.
- (SHF § 29) The English see smoke rising from the Scottish raids and set out to meet the Scottish army, but they are unable
to catch up with the Scots.
- (SHF § 30) The English army sets up camp for the night. It is decided to rise early the next morning to try to catch out the
Scots.
- (SHF § 31–32) English fail to catch up with the Scots; privations suffered by the English.
- (SHF § 33) Edward III announces that he will knight the first person who brings news of the Scots and grant him a fief-rent
of £100 sterling. Thomas Rokeby tells the king he knows where the Scots are.
- (SHF § 34) The army sets out and finds the Scots on a steep hill on the other side of the River Wear.
- (SHF § 35) Deadlock for three days with the two armies on either side of the River Wear. During the night the Scots decamp
to another hill that is even more difficult to attack. The situation remains deadlocked for 18 days.
- (SHF § 36) During this period of stalemate James Douglas mounts a nightly surprise attack on the English camp and kills many
soldiers.
- (SHF § 37) For 22 days there are skirmishes between the English and Scottish armies, but no battle. During the night the Scots
break up and are able to get away without alerting the English. The English retreat to Durham and from there to York. John
of Hainault and his followers take their leave and go back to Hainault.
- (SHF § 38) Edward III’s advisors decide that the king should marry one of the daughters of the count of Hainault, nieces of
John of Hainault. They sent ambassadors to Hainault. An agreement is reached and papal dispensation for the marriage is granted
[30 August 1327].
- (SHF § 39) Philippa marries Edward III by procuration [28 October 1327] and then travels to England to meet her husband accompanied
by her uncle John of Hainault.
- (SHF § 40) At the end of the Scottish campaign a three-year truce was concluded between Edward III and Robert the Bruce. Robert
the Bruce feels his death approaching and asks James Douglas to fulfill posthumously his wish to go on crusade by taking his
embalmed heart to the Holy Land. The king dies and is burried in Dumferline abbey [7 June 1329].
- (SHF § 41) James Douglas travels to Flanders and from there to Spain, where he takes part in a campaign against the Saracens
in Granada by King Alfonso XI of Castile. He perishes in battle [1330].
- (SHF § 42) King Charles IV of France married three times. He dies in 1328 without leaving a male heir. The crown goes to Philip
of Valois. After his coronation in Rheims King Philip VI mounts a military expedition to Flanders to help the count, Louis
of Nevers, quell the revolt lead by Nicholas Zennekin. The Flemish rebels are defeated at the battle of Cassel.
- (SHF § 43) At the instigation of Roger Mortimer King Edward III has his uncle, Edmund earl of Kent, executed. Rumours circulate
that the Queen mother is pregnant by Roger Mortimer. Edward III orders Mortimer to be arrested. He is executed and Queen Isabella
is put under house arrest.
- (SHF § 44) Philip of Valois sends ambassadors to Edward III to request that he pay homage to the new king of France. Edward
agrees.
- (SHF § 45) Edward III journeys to France. He meets Philip of Valois in Amiens and does homage.
- (SHF § 46) Philip of Valois sends further ambassadors to Edward III in England to look into whether Edward should do homage
for Aquitaine.
- (SHF § 47) Text of a charter issued by Edward III (30 March 1331) in which he declares to have performed general homage, not
liege homage, to Philip of Valois at Amiens. However, he now declares that the homage which he and his successors owe to the
French king as dukes of Aquitaine and counts of Ponthieu and Montrueil, should be liege homage.
- (SHF § 48) Robert of Artois exiled from France.
- (SHF § 56) War breaks out between France and England.
- (SHF § 59) Jacques d’Artevelde and the Anglo-Flemish compact.
- (SHF § 63) Battle of Cadzand.
- (SHF § 68) Franco-Scottish Alliance.
- (SHF § 72) Edward III and the Empire; the opening of hostilities.
- (SHF § 77) After the siege of Cambrai, Edward’s troops tear through the Thiérache and Picardy.
- (SHF § 82) Philip VI musters his forces near Buironfosse.
- (SHF § 89) Edward III assumes the style and title of king of France.
- (SHF § 98) Philip VI marches against Hainault.
- (SHF § 112) Battle of Sluys.
- (SHF § 137) The Pope attempts to reconcile the French and English.
- (SHF § 141) Beginning of the War of the Breton Succession.
- (SHF § 156) Edward III and the countess of Salisbury.
- (SHF § 181) Jousts in honour of the countess of Salisbury.
- (SHF § 203–204) Edward III announces his intention to found an order of chivalry, the Order of the Round Table [January 1344].
Edward sends heralds out to announce the tournament that will take place in Windsor to mark the foundation of the order (23
April 1344). During the preparation for the festivities Edward is informed of the execution of Olivier of Clisson by the French
king. He treatens to meet out the same treatment to one of his prisonners, Hervy of Léon, but eventually decides to send Hervy
to the French king to declare an end to the ceasefire.
- (SHF § 205) Many knights cross the Channel to convene at Windsor for the festivities, including Gascon knights sent by Edward’s
Gascon allies, to ask the king to send an army to Gascony to support them against the French king. Edward III decides to send
troups under the command of the earl of Derby. Thomas Dagworth is sent to Britanny to support the countess of Montfort, and
the earl of Salisbury is sent to Ulster.
- (SHF § 206–212) The earl of Derby sails to Gascony. He attacks Bergerac, where the Gascon allies of Philip VI of Valois have
gathered. When the Gascon barons in Bergerac realise that they can no longer keep up the defence, they leave during the night.
The inhabitants of Bergerac surrender to the earl of Derby [24 August 1345]. The Gascon allies of the French king take up
garrison in various towns.
- (SHF § 213–214) The earl of Derby makes his way to Périgueux; several towns and castles are captured or surrendered to him.
- (SHF § 215–216) Having seen the fortifications at Périgueux, it is decided that the city cannot easily be taken, so the army
continues towards Pellegrue. During a suprise attack on Derby’s army during the night the earl of Oxford is captured and taken
to Périgueux. The castle of Pellegrue is besieged but after an exchange of prisoners, during which the earl of Oxford is released,
the siege is ended and Derby’s army moves to Auberoche, which quickly surrenders. The earl of Derby returns to Bordeaux. On
the way there he besieges Libourne, which surrenders to him.
- (SHF § 217–218) The count of Lisle-Jourdain, having heard that the earl of Derby has returned to Bordeaux, summons an army
and starts besieging the castle of Auberoche. The garrison attempts to send a message to the earl, but the messenger is captured
and catapulted back into the castle by one of the siege engins.
- (SHF § 219–222) News of the siege of Auberoche reaches the earl of Derby in Bordeaux. An army is scrambled under the command
of the earl. The besiegers are attacked by surprise and thoroughly defeated (August 1344) [21 October 1345].
- (SHF § 223–226) After his victory the earl returns to Bordeaux for the winter. At the start of spring he assembles his army
to go to La Réole. On the way he besieges Sainte-Bazeilles and Meilhan, which both surrender. Aguillon puts up no resistance
and also surrenders.
- (SHF § 227–229) The earl of Derby besieges La Réole; after several weeks the inhabitants of La Réole surrender, but the captain,
Agout des Baux, retreats into the castle.
- (SHF § 230–231) The earl orders minors to undermine the castle. During the siege of La Réole Walter Mauny discovers the tomb
of his father, who had been murdered in La Réole in a revenge killing during a pilgrimage to Compostella. The body is removed
for reburial in the church of the Friars Minor in Valenciennes.
- (SHF § 232–235) Faced with a military assault, the castle garrison of La Réole surrenders to the earl of Derby. The earl then
captures Montpezat, Castelmoron, Villefranche-du-Queyran and Miramont, and his troops take Tonneins and the castle of Damazan.
[Agen] is besieged and surrenders when no relief is sent to lift to siege. The sieges at Blayes, Mortagne-sur-Gironde, Mirebeau
and Aulnay are ended at the start of the winter.
- (SHF § 236) Godfrey of Harcourt is banished from France [15 July 1344]. He goes to stay in Brabant, where he has possessions.
- (SHF § 237–238) Jacob of Artevelde is killed by the Ghenters [24 July 1345].
- (SHF § 239) Count William II (IV) of Hainault and Holland besieges Utrecht and then campaigns against the Frisians but is
killed in the Battle of Stavoren [26 September 1345]. John of Hainault becomes regent of Hainault until Margaret’s succession
as countess.
- (SHF § 240) John of Hainault renounces his allegiance to Edward III and becomes a vassal of Philip VI [21 July 1346].
- (SHF § 241) Philip VI of Valois summons an army to confront the earl of Derby in Gascony (1 November 1345). He puts his son,
the Duke of Normandy, in charge; the Duke arrives with the army in Toulouse on 25 December 1345.
- (SHF § 242) The French army captures the castle of Miramont and the town and castle of Villefranche-du-Queyran; they then
start the siege of [Agen].
- (SHF § 243) The earl of Derby sends troops to occupy the castle of Villefranche again. He also sends Walter Mauny and other
knights as reinforcements to the castle of Aguillon.
- (SHF § 244) During the siege of [Agen] the seneschal of Beaucaire takes the town of Tonneins by ruse.
- (SHF § 245) John of Norwich, captain of [Agen], realises that the town is facing famine. He negociates a truce for the feast
of Candlemas (2 February 1346) and uses the opportunity to leave the town safely and go to Aguillon.
- (SHF § 246) The next day the burghers of [Agen] surrender to the Duke of Normandy, who then captures the castle of Damazan
and the towns of Tonneins and Port-Sainte-Marie.
- (SHF § 247–253) The Duke of Normandy besieges the castle of Aguillon; the defenders under the command of Walter Mauny put
up fierce resistance. The Duke swears not to leave the siege until Aguillon is taken; he sends messengers to Paris to inform
his father the King of the situation in Aguillon.
- (SHF § 254) Edward III decides to assemble an army to go to Gascony in support of the earl of Derby. The meeting date is set
for 24 June 1346 (‘Rome’ version: 1 July) in London. The army sails for the Continent. Godfrey of Harcourt advises the King
to land in Normandy.
- (SHF § 255–260) Edward III lands in the Cotentin, near Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue. The army sacks Barfleur, Cherbourg, Valognes,
Carentan and Saint-Lô. Philip VI of Valois assembles an army to resist the English invasion.
- (SHF § 261–262) After taking Saint-Lô, Edward III decides to move on to Caen. The burghers of Caen, under the command of the
constable of France and the lord of Tancarville, resist but are soon defeated. Their commanders surrender themselves to Thomas
Holland. Godfrey of Harcourt convinces Edward III not to sack the city.
- (SHF § 263–265) The English ransack Louviers, Vernon, Vernueil. The main army then arrives at Poissy, where Edward III celebrates
the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (15 August 1346). The vanguard of the army attacks towns and villages closer
Paris causing panick amongst the Parisians. Philip VI joins the army assembled to the north of the city, in St.-Denis. The
English cross the Seine at Poissy and then advance into the Beauvaisis.
- (SHF § 266–268) Pursued by the Philip VI’s army the English try to cross the Somme but find that all the bridges are destroyed
or too well defended. They advance into the Vimeu. Philip VI orders Godemar du Fay to defend the crossing at La Blanchetaque
near Amiens to prevent the English from crossing the Somme. Edward III is told about the crossing by one of his prisonners
and plans to cross the river early in the morning.
- (SHF § 269–270) Battle at the crossing of La Blanchetaque. Godemar du Fay and his troups are defeated and Edward III is able
to cross the Somme.
- (SHF § 271–273) Edward III approaches Crécy-en-Ponthieu. His marshals identify a good position to await the French army. Philip
VI arrives in Abbeville, where he entertains his commanders the night before the battle.
- (SHF § 274–284) The next day [26 August 1346] Edward III’s army takes up positions and awaits the French. Philip VI sends
out knights to inspect the English position and is advised not to fight the English on that day, but to wait until the next
day. His orders to that effect are ignored and the French vanguard starts engaging the English, which effectively starts the
full battle. Edward III inflicts a crushing defeat on Philip VI. Many French noblemen are killed, including the blind King
John of Bohemia, who is lead into battle by his knights. When the outcome of the battle becomes clear, Philip VI flees the
battlefield on the advice of John of Hainault. After nightfall the king reaches safety in the castle of Labroye.
- (SHF § 285–287) The day after the battle further French reinforcements arrive at Crécy unaware of the French defeat the previous
night and are slaughtered by the English. The English army advances towards Calais. Philip VI reaches Abbeville and is informed
of the scale of the defeat.
- (SHF § 288) Edward III arrives at Calais and prepares for a long siege. Jean of Vienne, the captain of Calais, sends all the
poor out of the city.
- (SHF § 289–291) The besiegers of Aguillon are informed about the French defeat at Crécy; the siege is ended. Walter Mauny
obtains a safe-conduct from the Duke of Normandy to travel through France to join King Edward III at the siege of Calais.
He is arrested in Orléans and locked up in the Châtelet in Paris. The Duke of Normandy protests to his father the King about
Mauny’s treatment. Eventually Mauny is freed; he first travels to his native Hainault and from there to Calais, where he meets
Edward III.
- (SHF § 292–294) The earl of Derby hears that the Duke of Normandy has left the siege of Aguillon. He summons the Gascon vassals
and undertakes a chevauchée in the Saintongue and Poitou, where they meet with little resistance, attakcing towns and villages.
Saint-Jean-d’Angély surrenders and Poitiers is taken [4 October 1346] and ransacked. The earl returns to Bordeaux.
- (SHF § 295–296) The Scottish King David II decides to attack England while Edward III is at the siege of Calais with a large
army and many other English leaders are also out of the country, in Britanny and Gascony. He summons the army to assemble
in St-John-upon-Tay; it is decided to attack England via Roxburgh. Queen Philippa organises the English defence from York
and then from Newcastle.
- (SHF § 297–299) The English and Scots meet in pitched battle [battle of Neville’s Cross, 17 October 1346]. The Scots suffer
a crushing defeat. A large number of their leaders are killed or taken prisonner, including King David II, who is captured
by an English squire, John de Coupland. Coupland immediately transfers the King to his own castle but is summoned to the siege
of Calais by Edward III, who negotiates the transfer of the royal prisonner to the Tower of London. Queen Philippa joins her
husband at the siege of Calais.
- (SHF § 300–302) Edward III continues the siege of Calais during the winter months. He starts negotiations with the Flemish
about a marriage between his daughter and the young Flemish count Louis of Male. Initially, Louis strongly opposes the plans,
but under increasing pressure from his subjects, who effectively hold him hostage, he eventually meets the English King and
Queen at Bergues and agrees to the marriage [3 March 1347]. Shortly after Louis manages to escape from the control of the
Flemish and flees to the French court.
- (SHF § 303) During the siege of Calais the English King and Queen receive many knights from Brabant, Flanders, Hainault and
Germany, who come to visit them, including Robert of Namur, who becomes Edward’s vassal.
- (SHF § 304–305) In Britanny the war reopens. The English king sends troups to support the countess of Montfort and La Roche-Derrien
is taken. Charles of Blois besieges the city. The countess sends troups to try to lift the siege, but during a nightly raid
on the besiegers their captain, Thomas Dagworth, is taken prisonner. During a new suprise attack Dagworth is freed and Charles
of Blois is captured [20 June 1347].
- (SHF § 306–310) Philip VI of Valois decides to try to break up the siege of Calais; he summons his nobility to Amiens for
Pentecost (20 May 1347). Edward reinforces the siege by blocking off more securely the access from the see. The Flemish prevent
the French army from reaching Calais from the north. Philip’s army approaches Calais and takes up position on the hill of
Sangattes overlooking Calais. Philip VI sends negotiators to Edward III to ask him to chose a suitable ground to fight a pitched
battle. Edward III declines Philip’s proposal. Negotiations by two cardinals sent by Pope Clement VI to avoid battle fail;
Philip VI retreats to Amiens [2 August 1347].
- (SHF § 311–313) Following the French king’s retreat, the burgesses of Calais decide to surrender the city to Edward III. After
negotiations Edward accepts the surrender on the condition that the six most prominent burgesses of Calais are handed over
to be executed. Eustache de Saint-Pierre and five other burgesses volunteer. Queen Philippa begs her husband for mercy and
the lives of the six are spared. Edward takes possession of the city (August 1347).
- (SHF § 314) A truce between the French and English kings is concluded, but Britanny is excluded from the truce [28 September
1347]. Edward III returns to London and sends Londoners to repopulate Calais. Charles of Blois is also transferred to London,
where he joins other prisonners, including the King of Scotland, the earl of Moray and Raoul II of Brienne, count of Guines
and Eu. Aimeric of Pavia becomes captain of Calais.
- (SHF § 315–316) The Scots, under the command of William Douglas, keep fighting the English, despite the truce. In Gascony,
Saintonge and Poitou the truce is also not kept well and brigandage is rife. Some of men-at-arms become very rich as the result
of their plunder and ransoms, including one called Bacon, active in the Languedoc, and another one called Croquart, active
in Britanny, where he also took part in the Battle of the Thirty.
- (SHF § 317–319) Geoffroy of Charny makes a secret deal with Aymeric of Pavia, the captain of Calais, to let him into the city
with a small army in return for a large sum of money. Edward III gets wind of the plan. He summons Aymeric to London, where
he exposes him. He orders him to go ahead with the deal as planned but to notify him of the day when Charny plans to capture
the city. the The deal is to take place in the early hours of 31 December. Edward secretly sails to Calais and twharts the
plot. The French knights and the archers from Saint-Omer and Aire are defeated and some of them are killed and many are taken
prisonner, including their commander Charny (31 December 1348 [1349]).
- (SHF § 320) On New Year’s Eve Edward III gives a dinner in Calais Castle. The French prisonners are served by the English
knights who had earlier defeated their plot. At the end of the evening the King offers his pearl-decorated hat to Eustache
of Ribeumont, as the most worthy combatant, and releases him from captivity.
- (SHF § 321) In the same year (1349) Queen Jeanne of Burgundy and her daughter-in-law Bonne of Luxemburg both die. King Philip
VI of Valois and his eldest son John remarry, the former to Blanche of Navarre, the latter to Jeanne of Auvergne.
- (SHF § 331) Death of Philip VI, coronation of John II of France.
- (SHF § 377) Edward, prince of Wales in the Poitou.
- (SHF § 384) Battle of Poitiers, capture of John II.
- (SHF § 392) Edward of Wales receives the captured French king in his pavilion.
- (SHF § 410) The king of Navarre released from prison; Jacquerie of 1358.
- (SHF § 453) Lancaster ravages Picardy; Edward III returns to France.
- (SHF § 462) Edward III besieges Rheims.
- (SHF § 468) Edward III abandons the siege of Rheims.
- (SHF § 475) Treaty of Brétigny.
- (SHF § 489) Reduction of the French garrisons; advent of the Free Companies.
- (SHF § 493) Battle of Brinay, defeat of Jacques de Bourbon by the Free Companies.
- (SHF § 498) Death of Lancaster; war between France and Navarre; Edward prince of Wales comes to Aquitaine.
- (SHF § 504) Peter of Cyprus seeks support for his crusade.
- (SHF § 512) Funeral of John II; coronation of Charles V; battle of Cocherel between the French and Navarrese.
- (SHF § 537) Battle of Auray, capture of Bertrand du Guesclin by Chandos; death of Charles of Blois.
- (SHF § 548) Pedro the Cruel seeks Edward prince of Wales’ support against Enrique of Trastámara.
- (SHF § 553) Enrique allies himself with the king of Aragon.
- (SHF § 576) Battle of Navarrete.
- (SHF § 593) Edward of Wales and Aquitaine hears the Gascon lords’ appeals at Bordeaux.
- (SHF § 599) Assassination of Pedro the Cruel by Enrique.
- (SHF § 604) The Gascons appeal to Charles V; the Black Prince’s angry response.
- (SHF § 633) Sir John Chandos in Anjou; the earl of Pembroke besieged at Puirenon.
- (SHF § 634) Sir John Chandos comes to the aid of Pembroke; death of queen Philippa, Froissart’s patroness.
- (SHF § 645) Death of Sir John Chandos.
- (SHF § 662) Limoges surrenders to Berry’s army; Edward of Aquitaine lays siege to Limoges.
- (SHF § 666) Edward of Wales and Aquitaine captures Limoges, massacring its citizens.
- (SHF § 688) Pembroke’s expeditionary force is defeated by a Castilian fleet off La Rochelle.
- (SHF § 694) French reconquests in the Poitou, Rouergue and Limousin.
- (SHF § 700) Battle of Soubise, capture of Du Guesclin.
- (SHF § 709) Du Guesclin at large again; his reconquests near La Rochelle.
- (SHF § 718) Du Guesclin drives the English out of Poitou, Saintonge and the area surrounding La Rochelle.
- (SHF § 724) Peace between Navarre and France; death of the king of Scots; flight of the duke of Brittany to England; Du Guesclin’s
conquest of the duchy.
- (SHF § 742) Beheading of hostages at Derval; Knollys and his prisoners.
- (SHF § 769) Enguerrand de Coucy’s Austrian expedition; death of Edward prince of Wales; death of Edward III of England.
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