Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois (d. 1346)
Eldest son of Guy I of Châtillon, count of Blois, and Margaret of Valois, sister of King Philip VI of Valois. He was the younger brother of Charles of Blois, duke of Brittany. Louis was count of Blois and Soisson from 1342 to his death in 1346. He married Jeanne of Hainault, daughter of John of Hainault, lord of Beaumont, in 1336. He was succeeded as count of Blois by his three sons, Louis II, John II and Guy II. He was killed in the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346.
View full articleJohn of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
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Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
France
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleJohn of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
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Edward III (1312 - 1377), king of England; son of king Edward II of England and Isabella of France.
View full articleKing Edward III of England (d. 1377)
Edward III (1312 - 1377), king of England; son of king Edward II of England and Isabella of France.
View full articleLouis I of Châtillon, count of Blois (d. 1346)
Eldest son of Guy I of Châtillon, count of Blois, and Margaret of Valois, sister of King Philip VI of Valois. He was the younger brother of Charles of Blois, duke of Brittany. Louis was count of Blois and Soisson from 1342 to his death in 1346. He married Jeanne of Hainault, daughter of John of Hainault, lord of Beaumont, in 1336. He was succeeded as count of Blois by his three sons, Louis II, John II and Guy II. He was killed in the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346.
View full articleJeanne of Hainault (d. 1350)
Daughter of John of Hainault, lord of Beaumont. She married Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois and Soissons 1342-1346. After Louis’ death in 1346, she remarried William I of Flanders, margrave of Namur, in 1348. She died in October 1350.
View full articleThe three sons of Louis I, count of Blois
Louis II, count of Blois (d. 1372)
Louis II, count of Blois and Soissons since 1346 (successor to his father, Louis I of Châtillon). He died in 1372 and was succeeded as count by his younger brother John II of Blois.
View full articleJohn II, count of Blois (d. 1381)
John II of Châtillon, count of Blois and Soissons between 1372 and his death in 1381. He was the second son of Louis I of Châtillon and Jeanne of Hainault. He inherited the lordships of Schoonhoven and Gouda, both in the county of Holland, from his paternal grandfather, John of Hainault on the latter’s death in 1356. When his elder brother Louis II died in 1372, he also inherited the counties of Blois and Soissons. He married Mathilde of Gueldres on 14 February 1372. They had no children. John died 9 June 1381 and was buried in the Francisan convent in Valenciennes. He was succeded as count of Blois by his youngest brother Guy.
View full articleGuy II, count of Blois (d. 1397)
Guy II of Châtillon, count of Blois. He was the youngest son of Louis I of Châtillon and Jeanne of Hainault. On the death of his elder brother John in 1381 he succeded to the lordships of Schoonhoven and Gouda and the counties of Blois and Soissons. He married Marie of Namur in 1372. Their son and heir Louis died in 1391, before his parents. In that same year Guy sold the counties of Blois, Soissons and Dunois to Louis of Orléans, who became count after Guy’s death on 22 December 1397. Guy was buried in the Francisan convent in Valenciennes. He was an important patron of Froissart.
View full articleJohn of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
View full articleJohn of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
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England
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
John of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
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Edward III (1312 - 1377), king of England; son of king Edward II of England and Isabella of France.
View full articlePhilip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)
Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleEngland
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
John of Hainault, lord of Beaumont (d. 1356)
John of Hainault (c. 1288 - 1356), lord of Beaumont. He was the second son of John II of Avesnes, count of Hainault and Holland, and Philippine of Luxemburg. He married Marguerite of Nesle, countess of Soissons. They only had one daughter, Jeanne, who was married to Louis I of Châtillon, count of Blois. Jeanne died before her father, and it was her sons who inherited the various lordships held by John of Hainault.
View full articleKing John II of France (d. 1364)
Jean II (1319 - 1364), king of France (1350 - 1364), known as Jean le Bon or John the Good; son of Philip VI of Valois, king of France, and of Jeanne de Bourgogne. He was knighted on 2 October 1332 in Paris. He married 1) Bonne de Luxemburg 2) Jeanne d’Auvergne, countess of Auvergne and Boulogne. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.
View full articleHenry of Lancaster, earl of Derby, earl of Lancaster, first duke of Lancaster (d. 1361)
Son of Henry, earl of Lancaster, and Maud Chaworth.
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Philip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)
Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.
View full articleHenry of Lancaster, earl of Derby, earl of Lancaster, first duke of Lancaster (d. 1361)
Son of Henry, earl of Lancaster, and Maud Chaworth.
View full articleKing John II of France (d. 1364)
Jean II (1319 - 1364), king of France (1350 - 1364), known as Jean le Bon or John the Good; son of Philip VI of Valois, king of France, and of Jeanne de Bourgogne. He was knighted on 2 October 1332 in Paris. He married 1) Bonne de Luxemburg 2) Jeanne d’Auvergne, countess of Auvergne and Boulogne. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.
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Philip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)
Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleDuchy of Burgundy
Burgundy, a region in the east of France whose unity was based more upon historical than geographical factors.
View full articleNormandy
Duchy to the north-west of the Île-de-France, bordered by the Channel; governed by the dauphin Charles, as Lieutenant of Normandy, until his accession to the French throne in 1364.
Eudes IV, duke of Burgundy (d. 1349)
Eudes was a younger son of duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France. He succeded as duke of Burgundy in 1315. He was married to Jeanne of France. Their only son, Philip, died before his father, in 1346. Eudes was therefore succeded by his grandson, Philip of Rouvre.
View full articlePhilip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)
Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.
View full articlePhilip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)
Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.
View full articleRaoul II of Brienne, count of Guines and Eu (d. 1350)
Son of Raoul I of Brienne, count of Guines and Eu. He succeded as counts to these two counties and also received the office of constable of France, which his father had held until his death in 1344. He married Catherine of Savoy in 1340. In 1350 he was suspected of treason apparently because he had sold his county of Guines. He was imprisoned by King John II and executed on 19 November 1350 in the Hôtel de Nesle in Paris.
View full articleBéraud I, dauphin of Auvergne (d. 1356)
Son of Jean, dauphin of Auvergne. He became count-dauphin of Auvergne in 1351 at his father’s death. He died in 1356.
View full articleGuigues VII, count of Forez (d. 1358)
Born 19 April 1299. He married Jeanne of Bourbon in 1327 and became count of Forez in 1333. He died on 23 June 1358.
View full articleEnguerrand VII de Coucy (d. 1397)
Enguerrand VII de Coucy (1340 - 1397), lord of Coucy, only son and successor of Enguerrand VI de Coucy. Enguerrand VII was considered to be among the most skilled and experienced of French knights in the fourteenth century; he was offered twice the position of constable of France, the highest military office in France, which he refused both times. A master of diplomacy, Coucy managed to maintain both his allegiance to the king of France and to his English father-in-law Edward III during the Hundred Years' War. However, Coucy resigned all of his English honours upon the accession of Richard II on 26 August 1377.
View full articlePoitou
France, region in the west bounded by Anjou and Touraine to the north, Berry and Limousin to the east, Angoumois to the south, Aunis, La Rochelle and the Atlantic to the west, and Saintonge to the south-west; ceded to the English crown in 1360 under the Treaty of Brétigny; reconquered by Du Guesclin and granted as an apanage to the duke of Berry in 1372.
View full articleSaintonge
France, western; area centred on Saintes and bounded to the north by Aunis and Poitou, the east by Angoumois, the south by Guienne-Aquitaine, and to the west by the Atlantic. Roughly equivalent to today’s Charente-Maritime, plus part of Charente; a territory of the inheritance acquired by the English under Henry II through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine; retaken by Du Guesclin 1371-2 and reintegrated into the French crown domains.
View full articleLa Rochelle
La Rochelle: On the Atlantic coast, administrative centre of the département of Charente-Maritime. The seneschal of La Rochelle between 1383 and 1389 (also known as the 'governor') was Guillaume de Naillac.
View full articleQuercy
France, Aquitanian Basin, modern Midi-Pyrénées region; covering approximately the modern departments of Lot and Tarn-et-Garonne; bounded to the north by Limousin, the west by Périgord and Agenais, the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and to the east by Rouergue and Auvergne; limestone plateaux and deep valleys; upper Quercy extends northwards from the diocesan city of Cahors as far as Souillac, Rocamadour, Martel, Bretenoux and Castelnau; lower Quercy (ceded to the English by the 1259 treaty of Paris) to the south as far as Moissac and Montauban. Held by the English from 1360 (treaty of Brétigny) until late 1369.
View full articleLimousin
France, centre (modern departments of Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne); bounded to the north-east by La Marche, the east by Auvergne, the north-west by Poitou, the west by Périgord and Angoumois, and the south by Quercy. Principal city: Limoges, many of whose surrounding fortresses (including Chalusset, Rochechouart, Isle, Châlus, etc) were occupied by routier garrisons during the early 1370s.
View full articleAuvergne
France, central region at the heart of the Massif Central covering approximately the modern departments of Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme and (parts of) Haute-Loire; bounded to the north by the duchy of Bourbon, the west by Limousin, the south by Viadene, the south-east by Gévaudan and the south-west by Quercy. Major towns: Clermont, Montferrand and Riom.
View full articleToulouse
Toulouse, on the river Garonne, administrative centre of the Haute-Garonne département; the old capital of the Languedoc.
View full articleRouergue
France, Midi-Pyrénées; corresponds approximately to the modern department of Aveyron; traversed from east to west by the River Aveyron which flows through Rodez, the major city; bounded to the north by Viadene and Auvergne; the west by the Causses de Gramat and Limogne, and by Quercy; the south by Languedoc and the east by Gévaudan and the Causses du Larzac; to the north-east by the Causse de Sauveterre; (ceded to the English in 1360 under the treaty of Brétigny; held by them until early 1369).
View full articleRodez
Rodez, on the river Aveyron, administrative centre of the département of the Aveyron.
View full articleAuvergne
France, central region at the heart of the Massif Central covering approximately the modern departments of Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme and (parts of) Haute-Loire; bounded to the north by the duchy of Bourbon, the west by Limousin, the south by Viadene, the south-east by Gévaudan and the south-west by Quercy. Major towns: Clermont, Montferrand and Riom.
View full articleToulouse
Toulouse, on the river Garonne, administrative centre of the Haute-Garonne département; the old capital of the Languedoc.
View full articleToulouse
Toulouse, on the river Garonne, administrative centre of the Haute-Garonne département; the old capital of the Languedoc.
View full articleKing John II of France (d. 1364)
Jean II (1319 - 1364), king of France (1350 - 1364), known as Jean le Bon or John the Good; son of Philip VI of Valois, king of France, and of Jeanne de Bourgogne. He was knighted on 2 October 1332 in Paris. He married 1) Bonne de Luxemburg 2) Jeanne d’Auvergne, countess of Auvergne and Boulogne. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.
View full articleToulouse
Toulouse, on the river Garonne, administrative centre of the Haute-Garonne département; the old capital of the Languedoc.
View full articleMarshals of France
This refers to Robert of Wavrin, lord of Saint-Venant, and Charles of Montmorency.
Robert of Wavrin, lord of Saint-Venant (d. 1370)
A distant cousin of Robert IV, Robert V and Robert VI of Wavrin, from a junior branch of the family. He was a squire in 1326, but by 1330 he had been knighted. The count of Flanders made him honorary falconer of Flanders in 1334 and hereditary seneschal of Flanders in 1336. He was marshal of France in 1342, 1345, 1346 and 1358. He went to England as a hostage for the execution of the Treaty of Brétigny. He died around 1370.
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