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Events from the year 1373 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles VCharles V king of France https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-V-king-of-France 6 February 2025 www.britannica.com en
Events
March 21 – The Battle of Chiset is fought at Chizé between English and French forces during the Hundred Years' War. The French had laid siege to the town and the English sent a relief force. The French, led by Bertrand du Guesclin, met the relief force and defeated it.2020-07-02 LA BATAILLE ET LE SIÈGE DE CHIZE 21 MARS 1373 https://la-guerre-de-cent-ans-et-nous.com/la-bataille-et-le-siege-de-chize-21-mars-1373/ 2023-03-09 LA GUERRE DE CENT ANS ET NOUS fr-FR
April 28 – Hundred Years' War: The French re-capture most of Brittany from the English, but are unable to take Brest.Palmer Alan The Chronology of British History Palmer Veronica Century Ltd 1992 0-7126-5616-2 London 108–110
August 9 – John of Gaunt's chevauchée of 1373: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, launches an English military raid of France.Williams Hywel https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/168 Cassell's Chronology of World History Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 London 168–169 registration Despite the devastation caused by the raid over its five month period, it was a failure for the English crown because of the weak military and political results, and the enormous losses.John A. Wagner https://books.google.com/books?id=uVZ893wOWgoC&dq=chevauch%C3%A9e+lancastre+1373&pg=PA96 Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War 2006 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-32736-0 96–97 en
September 9 – The French attack an isolated English corps at Oulchy, killing its captain Walter Hewitt and numerous men, and capturing several knights and squires, including Thomas Despenser, brother of the Constable of England Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester.Jean Froissart Jean Froissart https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Chroniques_de_Sire_Jean_Froissart/Livre_I,_Partie_II/Chapitre_CCCLXXII Chroniques, texte établi par J. A. C. Buchon 1835 680–682 fr
September 22 – The English arrived before Troyes, but are met by Constable of France Bertrand du Guesclin, Olivier V de Clisson, Louis II of Bourbon, the Duke of Burgundy and more than 7,000 men in garrison who had been waiting for them for a week.Jean Froissart Jean Froissart https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Chroniques_de_Sire_Jean_Froissart/Livre_I,_Partie_II/Chapitre_CCCLXXIV Chroniques, texte établi par J. A. C. Buchon 1835 livre I, partie II, chapitre 374 fr This prevented any English attempt to march on Paris through Gâtinais.John of Gaunt in France, 1373-1374 https://erenow.com/postclassical/dividedhouses/7.html usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20180422062620/https://erenow.com/postclassical/dividedhouses/7.html 22 April 2018 15 June 2022 en The English left, around September 25.
Births
March 29 – Marie d'Alençon, French princess (d. 1417)
Deaths
November 3 – Joan of Valois, Queen of NavarreJuana de Valois Real Academia de la Historia http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/15458/juana-de-valois
Date unknown
Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillorLe Coq, Robert 16 356
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