The Valois (1328-1498)
Philippe
VI (1328-1350)
1328 :
Philippe de Valois, son of Charles de Valois and
nephew of Philippe the Beautiful, is proclaimed
king of France.
1331 : Édouard
III of England renews its tribute to his suzerain
Philippe VI king of France
1332 : Philippe
VI banishes his brother-in-law Robert d’Artois
who in favour of vengeance goes to push Édouard
III to the war.
1337 : Philippe
VI confiscates the Guyenne again to the English.
Édouard III of England (grandson of Philippe
the Beautiful) attributes the title of king of France.
1340 : The French
fleet, that tempted to protect Flanders, is decimated
by the English in the bay of the sluice
1341 : Beginning
of the Brittany succession war (Philippe VI support
Jeanne of Penthievre whiles the king of England
support Jean of Montfort).
1343 : One truce
is signed in Malestroit.
1346 : August 26,
battle of Crecy (Picardie) and noteworthy defeat
of the French facing the English
1347 : After a long
seat, the English seize Calais.
1348 : Appeared
in Marseille, the black pestilence propagates itself
in all the Europe (it ends in 1351 after having
decimated more the third of the European population).
1349 : Philippe
VI buys to the king of Majorca the city of Montpellier
1350 : Death of
Philippe VI. Advent of his son Jean.
Jean II the good (1350-1364)
1350-1355 : The
currency loses 70% of its value. .
1354 : Charles de
Navarre (says the Bad), makes murder the supreme
commander of French armies Charles d’Espagne.
1355 : The black
Prince (Édouard, Prince of Wales) devastation
and rob the noon of France.
1356 :
April 5, Jean the good, stopped Rouen Charles the
bad, king of Navarre and Count of Evreux, who plotted.
September 19, the English crushes the French in
Poitiers. The king of France, Jean the good, is
captured. At the end of the year misery is general
in France.
1357 :
The prisoner king of France Jean is driven in England.
November 8, Charles the bad runs away of its
jail (castle of Arleux).
1358 :February
22, Etienne Marcel, provost of the merchants, invades
the royal palace. March 14, the Charles dolphin
takes the title of kingdom regent. May 4, the regent
convenes, against the will of Etienne Marcel and
Charles the bad, an assembly of the three orders.
In June, Grand Jaquerie: the peasants of the France
north island and the Beauvaisis rebel attack and
rob the castles. After having taken the Meaux city,
the Jacques are hunted and slaughtered. July 31,
the Parisian crowd leading by royalist agents murders
Etienne Marcel.
1360 : May 8, Bretigny
peace concluded with the English. October 24, treaty
of Calais where the France king gives up to the
Guyenne, the Gascogne, the Saintonge, the Angoumois,
the Perigord, the Quercy, the Rouergue, the Agenais,
the Poitou and Limousin.
December 13, king Jean the good, free, made his
return in Paris.
1362 : the truck
victory in the south of Lyons against the king's
troops
1363 : The three
states gathering in Amiens and refuse to confirm
the treaty of Calais
1364 : January 3,
King Jean returns to London. April 8 death of Jean the good in London. Advent of his son Charles. .
Charles Vthe wise (1364-1380)
1365 :
In March, peace treaty of Pampelune between Charles
V and Charles the bad (king of Navarre). The
king recovers the counties of Mantes, Meulans and
Longueville. In April, treaty of Guerande that confirms
Jean of Montfort as duke of Brittany.
1366 : Charles V
negotiates the departure of the truck drivers for
an expedition in Spain
1367 : Du Guesclin
is made prisoner at the time of the Navarete battle
(Castile, Spain).
1369 : After having
defeated Pierre the Cruel, supported by the English,
Henri of Trastamare, supported by the French, becomes
king of Castile.
In June, Édouard III of England begins again
king of France. Charles V it confiscates the Aquitaine.
1370 : The King
Charles V named Du Guesclin the supreme commander
of French armies.
1372 : The duke
of Brittany allies with the English.
1376 : Death of
the black Prince.
1380 : July 13,
death of the Guesclin. September 16 death of Charles
V. Advent of his son Charles that has 12 years old.
Its four uncles assure the regency: The duke of
Anjou, Berry, Burgundy and Bourbon.
Charles VI the Mad (1380-1422)
1381 : Revolts
in Beziers and Carcassonne repressed severely.
1382 : In March,
Revolt in Paris of the "maillotins" against
the power. In November, Philippe the audacious,
duke of Burgundy, has undone the Gantoises (Flemish)
rebels at the time of the Rozebeke battle
1386 : The regents
prepare, with the help of Scotland, an invasion
of England.
1388 : In August,
a new truce is concluded with England. In October,
the king aged of 20 years, decides to reign alone
and puts end to the regency.
1392 : First signs
of king’s craziness. His uncles return to
the crown.
1393 : Dance of
the Ardent (dressed dance, given in honour of Charles
VI, that finishes in burning aggravated the king's
mental health).
1396 : France takes
possession of Genes.
1399 : Henri IV
de Lancaster becomes king of England.
1404 : Death of
Philippe the audacious, duke of Burgundy and regent
of kingdom. His son, Jean the fearless follows him.
1407 : Jean the
fearless (duke of Bourogne) makes murdered Louis
d’Orleans, the king's brother.
1409 : France loses
Genes.
1411 : A civil war
explodes between Bourguignon and Amargnacs
1413 : In May, slaughter
in Paris of Armagnacs by the Bourguignon led by
the flayer Caboche.
1415 : Henri V,
king of England, advertising to France the Bretigny
and Calais treaties application signed in 1360.
He unites a powerful army and disembarks in France.
October 25, battle of Azincourt (tray of Artois)
where the French soldiers and knights are pruned
in pieces by the English. In December, Bernard of
Armagnac is named supreme commander of French armies.
1417 : Henri V returns
to France in August, surrounds Caen and colonies
the city. In November, the election of the pope
Martin V puts an end to the Grand Schism.
1418 : In May, the
Bourguignon seize Paris.
In June, the Bourguignon slaughters Bernard d’Armagnac
and his partisans in Paris. In October, the Charles
dolphin becomes regent of France
1419 : In January,
the English take Rouen and become Chief of Normandy.
September, the men of the Dolphin Charles murder
Jean the fearless in Montereau. .
1420 :: in May,
treaty of Troyes concluded with the English. (Henri
V will get the crown of France at the death of Charles
VI. Besides, he marries Catherine of France, the
girl of Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavaria)
1422 : In August,
died of Henri V in Vincennes of an intestinal haemorrhage.
His son, Henri VI, only has ten months.
In October, died of Charles VI. Jean de Bedford,
uncle of Henri VI, becomes regent of France Kingdom
1423 : the English
and Bourguignon in Cravant beat the partisans of
the Dolphin Charles
1425 : Taken of
Le Mans by the English
1428 : In October,
the English besiege Orleans
1429 : April 29,
Joan Of Arc and soldiers penetrates in Orleans.
May 8, the English raise the seat. July 17, Charles
VII is consecrated in Reims.
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