1450 in France

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Events from the year 1450 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles VII ^[1]

Events

• March – French forces besiege the English under Duke of Somerset at Caen as part of the Hundred Years War
• March 22 – French take Fresnay
• April 15 – The Battle of Formigny is fought as part of the Hundred Years War. ^[2]
• June 5 – Siege of Caen begins ^[3]
• July 6 –
  • Caen surrenders to the French
  • Siege of Cherbourg begins ^[4]
  • Siege of Falaise begins ^[4]
• July 21 – Siege of Falaise ends, French victory
• August 12 – Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the last remaining English stronghold in Normandy, surrenders to the French ending the Siege of Cherbourg ^[4]
• October – French invasion of Guyenne begins with the siege of Jonsac.

Deaths

• February 9 – Agnès Sorel, royal mistress (b.1422) ^[5]
• September 16 – Louis Aleman, cardinal (b.1390)

References

1. Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN   978-0-19-539536-5 . Retrieved 31 May 2022.
2. Allmand, Christopher T. (2005). The Hundred Years War: England and France at war c. 1300 - c. 1450. Cambridge medieval textbooks (Rev. ed., digital print ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN   978-0-521-31923-2.
3. Jaques, Tony (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182.
4. Nicolle, David (2012). The Fall of English France 1449–53. Illustrated by Graham Turner. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   1849086176.
5. Wellman, Kathleen (2013-05-21). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-17885-2.