1.1b.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1a.1b.1b.1.1.1.1b.1.1.1c.1b.1b.1.3b.3a.3a.1a John II ('The Good') , King of France (1350)* 
|
| Birth |
1319 |
| Death |
1364 |
BATTLE OF TOURS (Sept. 19, 1356); see BATTLE OF POITIERS (Sept. 19, 1356)
BATTLE OF POITIERS, also called the BATTLE OF TOURS (Sept. 19, 1356), the catastrophic defeat sustained by the FRENCH King John II at the end of the first phase of the HUNDRED YEAR'S WAR between FRANCE and ENGLAND.
Edward, the Black Prince, son and heir to Edward III, King of England, with ENGLISH troops under Sir John Chandos and with Gascon troops under the Captal de Buch (Jean III de Grailly), together rather less than 7,000 men, was conducting a raid from BORDEAUX into CENTRAL FRANCE but was turning westward and southward from the Lower Loire River Valley under pursuit from John II's probably superior forces. Contact between the enemy armies was made EAST OF POITIERS on Sept. 17, 1356; but truce for Sept. 18, a SUNDAY, enabled the ENGLISH to secure themselves on the Maupertuis (Le Passage), near NOUALLE south of POITIERS, where thickets and marshes surrounded the confluence of the Miosson and Clain Rivers. Forgetful of the lessons of Crecy (1346), the FRENCH launched a series of assaults in which their Knights, bogged down, became easy targets of the Black Prince's archers. John II himself led the last FRENCH charge and was taken prisoner. For his freedom he had to consent to the disadvantageous but inconclusive treaties of BRETIGNY and CALAIS (1360).
|
|