1214 in France

none 1214 Events from the year 1214 in France Incumbents Monarch – Philip IIPhilip II King of France, Crusader & Reformer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-II-king-of-France 26 December 2024 www.britannica.com en Events February 15 – John, King of England lands with an invasion force at La Rochelle in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. He sends his half-brother William Longespée to Flanders, with money to assemble a mercenary army there. John pushes the French forces northeast from Poitou towards Paris, while Emperor Otto IV marches southwest from Flanders.Palmer Alan The Chronology of British History Palmer Veronica Century Ltd 1992 0-7126-5616-2 London 77–79 June 19 – Roche-au-Moine is besieged by the English. July 2 – John of Englands forces are confronted by a French relief force while they besiege the castle of Roche-au-Moine. John retreats to La Rochelle ending the siege, but his rearguard suffers immensely by the French army.Oman, Charles (2012). A History of the Art of War: The Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century, p. 539. 978-1-62358-003-2. July 26 – Philip II arrives at the Flemish town of Tournai with his army (some 7,000 men), while the rest of his allied forces encamp 12 kilometres south at the Castle of Mortagne (France).France John Medieval France at War: A Military History of the French Monarchy, 885-1305 30 November 2022 Swansea University 978-1641893602 July 27 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II defeats an army of 25,000 German, English and Flemish soldiers led by Otto IV near Bouvines. The French forces take 9000 soldiers prisoner, including 131 knights and five counts with Count Ferdinand of Flanders, Count Renaud I of Boulogne and William Longespée among them.Battle of Bouvines (1214) Significance, Description, & Casualties Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Bouvines-1214 2024-12-26 www.britannica.com enMarvin Laurence W. Journal of Medieval Military History XXI Boydell & Brewer 2023 9781805430391 DeVries Kelly 4 - Philip II's "Eye of Command" and the Battle of Bouvines 10.1017/9781805430391 Rogers Clifford J. France John September 18 – Treaty of Chinon: John of England and Philip II of France agree to a truce at the Castle of Chinon, in which John of England recognises the Capetian (French) territorial gains at the expense of the Angevin Empire formally ending the Anglo-French war of 1213–14. Births April 25 – Louis IX ("the Saint"), king of France (d. 1270)Consoli Joseph P. https://books.google.com/books?id=4_lk-wKzYZAC&pg=PA158 The Novellino or One Hundred Ancient Tales: An Edition and Translation based on the 1525 Gualteruzzi editio princeps 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-51105-9 158 en Deaths February 13 – Theobald I, Count of Bar (or Thibauld), French nobleman (c. 1158)Pegg Mark Gregory A Most Holy War : The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom Oxford University Press 2008 Date unknown Baldwin of Toulouse, Occitan noble (b. 1165)Graham-Leigh, Elaine, The southern French nobility and the Albigensian Crusade, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2005 References 1214 France France Category:1210s in France Category:Years of the 13th century in France