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Events from the year 1217 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Philip IIPhilip II King of France, Crusader & Reformer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-II-king-of-France 23 January 2025 www.britannica.com en
Events
February – Prince Louis VIII of France returns to France from England to gather reinforcements in the First Barons' WarCarpenter David A. The Minority of Henry III 1990 University of California Press 978-0-520-07239-8 Berkeley, US and Los Angeles, US 27
May 20 – Second Battle of Lincoln: English relief forces under the command of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke defeat French troops at Lincoln Castle, during the First Barons' War.Archives The National 2017-05-19 The National Archives - The Battle of Lincoln https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battle-lincoln/ 2025-04-13 The National Archives en-GB Thomas, Count of Perche, commanding the French troops, was killedAsbridge Thomas Thomas Asbridge May 2017 The battle of Lincoln BBC History Magazine Bristol 24 and Louis VIII of France was expelled from his base in the southeast of England.
Late May – French troops on their flight south to London after their defeat in the Second Battle of Lincoln are ambushed and some are killed by inhabitants of towns between Lincoln and London.The Battle of Lincoln (1217), according to Roger of Wendover https://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/SOURCES/wendover.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20131024053150/http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/SOURCES/wendover.htm 24 October 2013 2025-04-13 www.deremilitari.org
August 24 – Battle of Sandwich: A Plantagenet English fleet commanded by Hubert de Burgh attacked and defeated a Capetian French fleet led by Eustace the Monk and Robert of Courtenay off Sandwich, Kent. The English captured the French flagship and most of the supply vessels, forcing the rest of the French fleet to return to Calais.Cannon Henry Lewin English Historical Review October 1912 27 649–670 The Battle of Sandwich and Eustace the Monk http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/pdfs/cannon.pdf 2025-04-14 2011-06-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20110605014338/http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/pdfs/cannon.pdf bot: unknown .Costain Thomas B. The Magnificent Century 1964 9–42 New York Popular Library Thomas B. Costain.Stanton Charles D https://books.google.com/books?id=aTmgBwAAQBAJ&dq=dover+1217&pg=PA236 Medieval Maritime Warfare 2015 Pen and Sword Books 978-1-78159-251-9 236–240 15 August 2015 When the news reached Louis, he entered into renewed peace negotiations.Carpenter David A. The Minority of Henry III 1990 University of California Press 978-0-520-07239-8 Berkeley, US and Los Angeles, US 44
August 29 – The newly-captured French knight, Robert de Courtenay, is allowed to go to London to speak with Louis VIII about peace negotiations with England, while Robert of Dreux remains as a hostage in his stead.The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Minority of Henry the Third, by Kate Norgate. https://readingroo.ms/5/4/9/5/54953/54953-h/54953-h.htm#Anchor_298 2025-04-14 readingroo.ms
September 5 or 6 – Negotiations between Louis VIII of France and regent William Marshal, on behalf of the young King Henry III of England start at either Staines on 6 September, because the royal court was nearby at Chertsey or possibly on 5 September on an island of the Thames near Kingston.Smith J. Beverley July 1979 The Treaty of Lambeth, 1217 English Historical Review Oxford University Press 94 562–579 10.1093/EHR/XCIV.CCCLXXII.562Tout T.F. A History of England 1-4510-1261-6England: Louis of France's Claim to the Throne of England: 1216–1217 http://www.archontology.org/nations/uk/england/king_england/01_louis_france.php 30 May 2012 Archontology.org
September 9 – A letter is brought to Louis VIII of France from William Marshal asking for a day's truce and requesting that Hugh de Malaunay might be sent to speak with Marshal and the council. Both of these requests were granted by Louis. A parley was then fixed for September 12, and a prolongation of the truce till the 14th.The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Minority of Henry the Third, by Kate Norgate. https://readingroo.ms/5/4/9/5/54953/54953-h/54953-h.htm#Anchor_304 2025-04-14 readingroo.ms
September 11 – A treaty is signed by Louis VIII's and Henry III's regents at Lambeth Palace (the archbishop of Canterbury's London house).James H. Ramsay The Dawn of the Constitution 13–17
September 12 and 13 – Louis VIII of France and Henry III of England, together with Henry's mother Isabella of Angoulême, Cardinal Guala and William Marshal, came to an agreement on the final Treaty of Kingston.Years 1200 to 1224 http://www.timeref.com/hstt48.htm 30 May 2012 Episodes of Medieval History: Timeline 1200 to 1299
September 13 – Papal ratification of the Treaty of Lambeth from the papal legate, who were encamped near Kingston.
September 20 – A Treaty of Lambeth signed on 20 September ratifying the Kingston treaty. Louis undertook not to attack England again and agreed to renounce his claim to the English throne, in exchange for 10,000 marks.Gérard Sivéry Louis VIII le Lion 1995 Fayard 2-213-59395-7 187
September 22 – Papal legate issues his terms of the ratification of the Treaty of Lambeth at Merton.Chron. Merton, Petit-Dutaillis, p. 515
September 28 – Prince Louis VIII of France returns to France from Dover, EnglandHersch Lauterpacht Volume 20 of International Law Reports Cambridge University Press 1957 1 January 2021 128 10.1017/CBO9781316151471.036
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The Pentemont Abbey is founded south-west of Beauvais in an orchard by Philip of Dreux, the famed crusader bishop of Beauvais, who wished to found a convent of the Cistercian order.Pentemont Abbey Chemins de mémoire https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/pentemont-abbey 2025-04-13 www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr
Births
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Guillaume III, French nobleman and knight (d. 1288)
Deaths
May 20 – Thomas of Perche, French nobleman (b. 1195)Power D.J. Anglo-Norman Studies XVII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1994 The Boydell Press 1995 Harper-Bill Christopher What did the Frontier of Angevin Normandy Comprise
August 24 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (c. 1170)Cannon Henry Lewin October 1912 The Battle of Sandwich and Eustace the Monk https://zenodo.org/record/1431726 The English Historical Review Oxford University Press 27 108 650 10.1093/ehr/xxvii.cviii.649 550984 4892167186Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales Medieval Institute Publications 1997 1879288923 Knight Stephen Kalamazoo Ohlgren Thomas H
September 29 – Jean de Montmirail, French monk (b. 1165)Jones Terry Saint John de Montmirail http://saints.sqpn.com/saintj9j.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100817101558/http://saints.sqpn.com/saintj9j.htm 17 August 2010 27 December 2010 Patron Saints Index
November 4 – Philip of Dreux, French bishop (b. 1158)
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Reginald of Bar (or de Mouçon), French bishop
William I, French nobleman and knight (b. 1176)Richard Jean Saint Louis, Crusader King of France Cambridge University Press 1992 Lloyd Simon Birrell Jean
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