Battle of Brignais
Battle of Brignais (representation from the 15th century)
| date | April 6, 1362 |
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| place | Brignais , France |
| output | Grandes Compagnies victory |
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Chevauchées of the 1340s: Saint-Omer - Auberoche
Edward III. Campaign (1346/47): Caen - Blanchetaque - Crécy - Calais
War of the Breton Succession (1341–1364) : Champtoceaux - Brest - Morlaix - Saint-Pol-de-Léon - La Roche-Derrien - Tournament of Thirty - Mauron - Auray
France's allies : Neville's Cross - Les Espagnols sur Mer - Brignais
Chevauchées of the 1350s: Poitiers
Castilian Civil War & War of the Two Peter (1351–1375): Barcelona - Araviana - Nájera - Montiel
French counter-offensive: La Rochelle - Gravesend
Wars between Portugal and Castile (1369– 1385): Lisbon - Saltés - Lisbon - Aljubarrota
Battle for Northern France: Rouen - Baugé - Meaux - Cravant - La Brossinière - Verneuil
Jeanne d'Arc and the turn of the war: Orléans - Battle of the herring - Jargeau - Meung-sur-Loire - Beaugency - Patay - Compiegne - Gerberoy
In the Battle of Brignais on April 6, 1362 marauding dismissed mercenaries from the Grandes Compagnies defeated a French army under the command of Jean de Melun , Count of Tancarville .
prehistory
Since the beginning of the Hundred Years War , France had suffered devastating defeats in the Battle of Crécy (1346) and the Battle of Maupertuis (1356). At Maupertuis King John II fell into English captivity, from which he was only released in 1360 after the Treaty of Brétigny . During the armistice that followed, mercenaries sacked by their employers sacked the country. Johann II decided to destroy them, whereupon the mercenaries formed larger groups for their defense.
battle
On April 6, 1362, one of these companies, the Tard-Venus , used a surprise effect to destroy a French army at Brignais south of Lyon . Several nobles died that day, including Jacques I. de Bourbon , Count of La Marche and Connétable of France , his eldest son Pierre, and Louis d'Albon , Count of Forez . Many more were captured. The cause of this defeat was a lack of discipline on the part of the knights , who competed without infantry and had also given up scouts.
consequences
France's new King Charles V got the threat posed by the dismissed mercenaries under control by commissioning his general Bertrand du Guesclin to collect the mercenaries and undertake campaigns in Hungary and Spain . The mercenaries were out of the country, and now even fought for France.
literature
- Peter Warren Singer: Un métier vieux comme le monde. In: Le Monde diplomatique , November 2004. [1] .
- Françoise Autrand: Charles VI. La folie du roi. Fayard, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-213-01703-4 .
Web links
- Jean Froissart : [2] (page 336)