| Year |
Month |
Day |
Event |
| 1451 |
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Mar. |
9 |
Dauphin Louis married Charlotte of Savoy without the consent of Charles VII. |
|
May. - Aug. |
6- 21 |
First campaign to reconquer Guyenne.
Comte de Dunois, accompanied by Bureau's artillery, quickly siezed English held towns in Guyenne. |
| 1452 |
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Metal plates first used for printing. |
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A pro-English faction in Bordeaux sought help from England.
John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury [i] arrived in France, and was welcomed into Bordeaux.
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| 1453 |
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|
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May. |
29 |
Jacques Coeur was charged with various, questionable crimes and imprisoned.
He was condemened. His wealth was effectively confiscated by the French crown.
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|
Jul. |
17 |
Charles VII deployed an army to reconquer Guyenne. Jean Bureau directed the French force that invested Castillon.
An English relief force advanced on the French fortified encampment.
The French cannon and handguns which cut down many of the attackers before a heavy cavalry of Breton men-at-arms made a flank attack and routed the English, killing their commander, Talbot [i] outside of Castillon. |
|
Oct. |
19 |
Bordeaux's final submission to Charles VII. |
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|
|
Bordeaux falls to the French. The war ends without a treaty.
English admit defeat in France, giving up everything but Calais. |
| 1454 |
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| 1455 |
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Charles VII experienced his first signs of serious illness.
Some members of the Scots Archers (part of the royal bodyguards) were condemned to death for plotting (in 1450, at the Siege of Caen) to kill Charles VII. Robert Cunningham, captain of the king's men-at-arms and archers was banished.
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| 1456 |
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Jean II, duc d'Alençon was arrested. He was tried in 1458, imprisoned, and his lands confiscated. Dauphin Louis fled to the protection of the duc of Burgundy (Philippe the good). When he later became Louis XI, he restored Alençon his lands.
|
|
Jul. |
7 |
Jehanne d'Arc is declared innocent by the Inquisition.
Jean Bréhal, the chief inquisitor, declared that the original trial was tainted by fraud, illegal procedures and intimidation of both Jehanne herself and many of the clergy who participated in the trial. She is described as a martyr. |
| 1457 |
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Apr. |
8 |
Charles VII deprived his son, Louis, the Dauphiné.
The possibility that Charles VII might disinherit Louis in favor of Louis' younger brother, Charles of France, drove Louis to side with Burgundy. |
| 1458 |
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The harboring of Louis by the duc of Burgundy caused a serious division among the advisors of Charles VII. Some of the advisors who had been most loyal to Charles VII were disliked by the dauphin Louis and they feared his eventual accession to the throne. These advocated armed aggression against Burgundy. |
| 1459 |
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|
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Death of Sir John Fastolf. |
| 1460 |
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Jean IV, comte d'Armagnac was banished.
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