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Events from the year 1351 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – John IIJohn II King of France, the Good https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-II-king-of-France 29 December 2024 www.britannica.com en
Events
February – The French besiege the town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély with an army of several thousand men led by Guy II de Nesle and his deputy Arnoul d'Audrehem.Saintes, Battle of (1351) Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War Greenwood Woodbridge, Suffolk Wagner John A. 2006 978-0313327360Le Bel Jean Jean Le Bel The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel, 1290 - 1360 1352–1361 Boydell & Brewer Bryant Nigel 10.1515/9781846159862-023 15 September 2011
March 26 – The Combat of the Thirty (part of Breton War of Succession) is fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany. It was an arranged fight of thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, that fought at a site midway between the Breton castles of Josselin and Ploërmel. The challenge was issued by Jean de Beaumanoir, a captain of Charles of Blois supported by King Philip VI of France, to Robert Bemborough, a captain of Jean de Montfort supported by Edward III of England.Combat of the Thirty (1351) in: John A. Wagner. Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. – Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006, p. 103.Battle of the Thirty (1351) Description & Significance Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Combat-of-the-Thirty 2024-12-28 www.britannica.com en"The combat of the thirty. From an old Breton lay of the fourteenth century". Translated by English novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. In: Browne, H. Knight; Cruikshank, G.; Smith, A.; Ainsworth, W. Harrison; Dickens, C. (18371868) (1859). Bentley's Miscellany Volume XLV. London: Richard Bentley. pp. 5–10, 445–459.Grant R. G. 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History Chartwell Books 2017 978-0785835530 195
April 1 – The Battle of Saintes between French and English forces takes place near Saint-Jean-d'Angély. The English force led by the Seneschal of Gascony, John de Cheverston and Arnaud-Amanieu are victorious, but was unable to fulfil its mission to resupply the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Guy II de Nesle is captured and the French pay a heavy ransoms for his release.
Arnoul d'Audrehem is captured and the French pay a heavy ransoms for his release.
June 6 – The Battle of Ardres is fought between French and English forces near the town of Ardres, Pas de Calais. The French led by Édouard I de Beaujeu, defeat the English and capture English commander of Calais John de Beauchamp.Rogers Clifford J. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology Oxford University Press USA 21 June 2010 9780195334036Timeline of the Hundred Years War 1351-55 http://www.maisonstclaire.org/timeline/1351.html usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20110419191424/http://maisonstclaire.org/timeline/1351.html 19 April 2011 27 March 2017
August 31 – The French captured the besieged town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély upon the arrival of the King of France.
Births
May – Joan of France, French nobleKeane Marguerite https://books.google.com/books?id=b7stDAAAQBAJ&q=blanche&pg=PA258 Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) 2016-05-18 BRILL 978-90-04-31883-0 en
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Pierre d'Ailly, French theologian, astrologer and cardinalAilly, Pierre D' 1 437–439 Joseph Marie Noël Valois Noël Valois Bibliography cited:
P. Tschackert, Peter van Ailli (Gotha, 1877)
L. Salembier, Petrus de Alliaco (Lille, 1886)
H. Denifle and Em. Chatelain, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, t. iii. (Paris, 1894)
N. Valois, La France et le Grand Schisme d'Occident (Paris, 4 vols., 1896–1902)
Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, vol. lxv., 1904, pp. 557–574.
Deaths
February 19 – Jean II des Granges, Abbott of Bec Abbey
August 4 – Jean de Vienne, French nobleman
June 8 – Édouard I de Beaujeu, Marshal of France, Lord of Beaujeu and MontpensierÉdouard I de Beaujeu marshal of France Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edouard-I-de-Beaujeu 2024-12-28 www.britannica.com en5 November 2010 Pierre de Guibours 1730 Père Anselme Parigi 1692 724 Compagnie des libraires associez Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76080b
June 14 – Jean de Vienne, Bishop of Avranches, French prelate and diplomat (b. 1316)Fisquet Honoré https://books.google.com/books?id=9xrd-05C5dwC La France pontificale: Métropole de Reims — Reims Étienne Repos 1864 Paris
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