Treaty of Picquigny

The Treaty of Picquigny was on August 29, 1475 by Louis XI. , King of France , and Edward IV , King of England , signed in Picquigny on the Somme . He finally ended the Hundred Years War , which "fell asleep" in 1453 after the Battle of Castillon .

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The English had their withdrawal and the termination of their alliance with Charles the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , paid for with a one-off payment of 75,000 gold crowns and an annual pension of 50,000 gold crowns.

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The Treaty of Picquigny weakened Charles' position in the Burgundian Wars , during which he lost the Battle of Grandson on March 2, 1476 and the Battle of Murten on June 22, 1476 , and fell on January 5, 1477 in the Battle of Nancy . The death of Charles meant the end of the House of Burgundy and the empire built up by his family between France and Germany, which now essentially passed into the possession of the Habsburgs and thus initiated the dangerous clutches for France through the sphere of influence of this dynasty.

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• Joseph Calmette , The Great Dukes of Burgundy , original edition Paris 1949, German Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01312-9 , p. 321ff.
• Joachim Ehlers , History of France in the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-668-5 , p. 371