1351 in France

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Events from the year 1351 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – John II ^[1]

Events

• February – The French besiege the town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély with an army of several thousand men led by Guy II de Nesle and his deputy Arnoul d'Audrehem. ^{[2] [3]}
• March 26 – The Combat of the Thirty (part of Breton War of Succession) is fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany. It was an arranged fight of thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, that fought at a site midway between the Breton castles of Josselin and Ploërmel. The challenge was issued by Jean de Beaumanoir, a captain of Charles of Blois supported by King Philip VI of France, to Robert Bemborough, a captain of Jean de Montfort supported by Edward III of England. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
• April 1 – The Battle of Saintes between French and English forces takes place near Saint-Jean-d'Angély. The English force led by the Seneschal of Gascony, John de Cheverston and Arnaud-Amanieu are victorious, but was unable to fulfil its mission to resupply the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély. ^[2]
  • Guy II de Nesle is captured and the French pay a heavy ransoms for his release.
  • Arnoul d'Audrehem is captured and the French pay a heavy ransoms for his release.
• June 6 – The Battle of Ardres is fought between French and English forces near the town of Ardres, Pas de Calais. The French led by Édouard I de Beaujeu, defeat the English and capture English commander of Calais John de Beauchamp. ^{[8] [9]}
• August 31 – The French captured the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély upon the arrival of the King of France. ^[3]

Births

• May – Joan of France, French noble ^[10]

Date unknown

• Pierre d'Ailly, French theologian, astrologer and cardinal ^[11]

Deaths

• February 19 – Jean II des Granges, Abbott of Bec Abbey
• August 4 – Jean de Vienne, French nobleman
• June 8 – Édouard I de Beaujeu, Marshal of France, Lord of Beaujeu and Montpensier ^{[12] [13]}
• June 14 – Jean de Vienne, Bishop of Avranches, French prelate and diplomat (b. 1316) ^[14]

References

1. "John II King of France, the Good". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
2. Wagner, John A. (2006). "Saintes, Battle of (1351)". Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Greenwood. ISBN   978-0313327360.
3. Le Bel, Jean (1352–1361) [15 September 2011]. The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel, 1290 - 1360. Translated by Bryant, Nigel. Boydell & Brewer. doi:10.1515/9781846159862-023.
4. Combat of the Thirty (1351) in: John A. Wagner. Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. – Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006, p. 103.
5. "Battle of the Thirty (1351) | Description & Significance | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
6. "The combat of the thirty. From an old Breton lay of the fourteenth century". Translated by English novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. In: Browne, H. Knight; Cruikshank, G.; Smith, A.; Ainsworth, W. Harrison; Dickens, C. (18371868) (1859). Bentley's Miscellany Volume XLV. London: Richard Bentley. pp. 5–10, 445–459.
7. Grant, R. G. (2017). 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History. Chartwell Books. p. 195. ISBN   978-0785835530.
8. Rogers, Clifford J. (21 June 2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press USA. ISBN   9780195334036.
9. "Timeline of the Hundred Years War 1351-55". Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
10. Keane, Marguerite (2016-05-18). Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398). BRILL. ISBN   978-90-04-31883-0.
11.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Valois, Joseph Marie Noël (1911). "Ailly, Pierre D'". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 437–439. Bibliography cited:
    • P. Tschackert, Peter van Ailli (Gotha, 1877)
    • L. Salembier, Petrus de Alliaco (Lille, 1886)
    • H. Denifle and Em. Chatelain, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, t. iii. (Paris, 1894)
    • N. Valois, La France et le Grand Schisme d'Occident (Paris, 4 vols., 1896–1902)
    • Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, vol. lxv., 1904, pp. 557–574.
12. "Édouard I de Beaujeu | marshal of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
13. Père Anselme (1730) [1692]. Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne. Parigi: Compagnie des libraires associez. p. 724. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
14. Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale: Métropole de Reims — Reims. Paris: Étienne Repos.