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1450
Events from the year 1450 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles VIIHourihane Colum The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture 2012 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-539536-5 225 https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA5-PA225 31 May 2022 en
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.Allmand Christopher T. The Hundred Years War: England and France at war c. 1300 - c. 1450 2005 Cambridge Univ. Press 978-0-521-31923-2 Rev. ed., digital print Cambridge medieval textbooks Cambridge
June 5 – Siege of Caen beginsJaques Tony Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E 2007 Greenwood Publishing Group 182 En
July 6 –
Caen surrenders to the French
Siege of Cherbourg beginsNicolle David The Fall of English France 1449–53 2012 Bloomsbury Publishing Illustrated by Graham Turner 1849086176
Siege of Falaise begins
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
October – French invasion of Guyenne begins with the siege of Jonsac.
Deaths
February 9 – Agnès Sorel, royal mistress (b.1422)Wellman Kathleen 10.12987/yale/9780300178852.001.0001 Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France 2013-05-21 Yale University Press 978-0-300-17885-2
September 16 – Louis Aleman, cardinal (b.1390)
References
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