Episode 57: The End of the War

The Battle of Formigny saw every available English soldier in Normandy crushed between the French Army of the Count of Clermont and the Breton Army of Arthur de Richemont. After the battle, the English position in the Duchy collapsed.

And 116 years later, the Hundred Years War comes to an End.

Time Period Covered: 1448-1453

Notable People: Charles VII of France, Henry VI of England, John of Orleans Count of Dunois, Arthur de Richemont Constable of France, John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Edmund Beaufort Duke of Somerset

Notable Events/Developments: Seizure of Fougeres, Breakdown of the Truce of Tours, Norman Campaign (1449-1450), Battle of Formigny, Gascon Campaign (1450-1451), Battle of Castillon

Left – Top to Bottom: The Norman Campaign of 1449, The leadup to the Battle of Formigny, The End of English Normandy. Right – The death of John Talbot at the Battle of Castiollon painted by Charles-Philippe Lariviere.

The Battle of Castillon was the last major engagement of the Hundred Years War.

Sources

The Hundred Years War: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption

Conquest: The English Kingdom of France by Juliet Barker

Charles VII by Malcolm Vale

The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet

The Fall of English France 1449-53 by David Nicolle

France at the end of the Hundred Years War by Malcolm Vale in The New Cambridge Medieval History Volume VII

Late Medieval France by Graeme Small

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