1373 in France

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Events from the year 1373 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles V ^[1]

Events

• March 21 – The Battle of Chiset is fought at Chizé between English and French forces during the Hundred Years' War. The French had laid siege to the town and the English sent a relief force. The French, led by Bertrand du Guesclin, met the relief force and defeated it. ^[2]
• April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest. ^[3]
• August 9 – John of Gaunt's chevauchée of 1373: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, launches an English military raid of France. ^[4] Despite the devastation caused by the raid over its five month period, it was a failure for the English crown because of the weak military and political results, and the enormous losses. ^[5]
• September 9 – The French attack an isolated English corps at Oulchy, killing its captain Walter Hewitt and numerous men, and capturing several knights and squires, including Thomas Despenser, brother of the Constable of England Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. ^[6]
• September 22 – The English arrived before Troyes, but are met by Constable of France Bertrand du Guesclin, Olivier V de Clisson, Louis II of Bourbon, the Duke of Burgundy and more than 7,000 men in garrison who had been waiting for them for a week. ^[7] This prevented any English attempt to march on Paris through Gâtinais. ^[8] The English left, around September 25.

Births

• March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)

Deaths

• November 3 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre ^[9]

Date unknown

• Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor ^[10]

References

1. "Charles V king of France". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
2. "LA BATAILLE ET LE SIÈGE DE CHIZE 21 MARS 1373". LA GUERRE DE CENT ANS ET NOUS (in French). 2020-07-02. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
3. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 108–110. ISBN   0-7126-5616-2.
4. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  168–169. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
5. John A. Wagner (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 96–97. ISBN   978-0-313-32736-0.
6. Jean Froissart (1835). Chroniques, texte établi par J. A. C. Buchon (in French). pp. 680–682.
7. Jean Froissart (1835). Chroniques, texte établi par J. A. C. Buchon (in French). livre I, partie II, chapitre 374.
8. "John of Gaunt in France, 1373-1374". Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
9. "Juana de Valois | Real Academia de la Historia".
10.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Le Coq, Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 356.