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Authors: Gordon Corrigan
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and the Treaty of Troyes
259–60
Charles VII, King of France
260
interview with Jeanne d’Arc
267–8
coronation
271
and Jeanne d’Arc
271–2
professionalization of army
275
Aquitaine campaign
277–9
Charles of Blois
77
,
121
,
122–3
,
156
,
166
Charles of Navarre
160
,
161–2
,
169
,
171–3
,
182
Chartres
162
Châtellerault
144
Chaucer, Geoffrey
162
siege of
256
Chester Castle
70
Chevaliers de l’Étoile
129
chevauchée
Henry of Lancaster, 1351
130
Edward, the Black Prince, 1355
132
,
132–4
,
136
Poitiers Campaign
140–4
John of Gaunt, 1373
179
Chinon
267
Chiverston, John de
140
Church, the
213–15
corruption
216
Cinque Ports, the
48
Clarence, duke of
223
,
224
,
226–7
,
229
,
230
,
261–2
Clement VI, Pope
131
Clerkenwell
187–8
Clermont, count of
276
Clermont, Jean de
150
clothing
74–5
coastal warning system
75–6
Compiègne, siege of
272
contract forces
72–3
Corbie
235
Cosne
262
cost
282
Courtenay, Richard, bishop of Norwich
229
Courtrai, Battle of
65
Coutances
256
Crabbe, John
55
Crécy, Battle of
84
location
99–100
Edward III at
99
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
109
English battle plan
100
terrain
100
dispositions
101
English deployment
102–4
English horses
104
French forces
105
French advance to
105–6
French crossbowmen advance
106–8
thunderstorm
107–8
French cavalry charge
108–9
hand to hand fighting
109
French withdrawal
109–10
casualties
110
French failure
110
causes of English victory
110–11
aftermath
113–14
Crécy Campaign
Froissart’s account
5
troop assembly
79–83
rations
80
ships
80–1
English forces
81–2
embarkation
82–3
landing site
85
sea crossing
85–6
landing
86
area of operations
87
assault on Caen
89–92
reinforcements
92
,
93–4
,
117
,
121–2
,
122
Seine crossing
94–6
Philip VI
95–6
French pursuit
97
the River Somme
97–9
siege of Calais
114–18
Crécy-en-Ponthieu
100
crossbowmen
rate of fire
106
at Azincourt
245
Cyprus
17
Brittany campaign
121
at La Roche-Derrien, 1347
122–3
capture of Charles of Blois
123
death
130
Daniel, Sir Thomas
93
Dargies
96
Dartmouth
206
dates and dating
8
d’Aulnay, Philip and Gautier
31
David II, King of Scots
40
,
45
,
118–20
,
132
,
158
decoys, use of
202
Despensers, the
28–9
,
31
,
32
,
34
,
36–7
d’Estouteville, sire
230
Dieppe
273
ditches
78–9
Domesday Book
13
Domrémy (now Domrémy-la-Pucelle)
267
Dorset, Thomas Beaufort, earl of
230
Douglas, Archibald
198–9
,
202
,
204
Douglas, Sir William
118–20
Douglas, William
145–6
,
148
,
149
,
150
Douvres, River
88
Dover
52–3
Dreaux
262
Dreux, count of
94
du Guesclin, Bertrand du
250
capture at Auray
166
Spanish campaign, 1367
170
,
172
,
174–5
at Najera
174–5
appointed constable of France
177
campaign, 1372
178
campaign, 1373
179
d’Umfraville, Sir Gilbert
261
,
276
Dupplin Moor, Battle of
66–7
,
103
duration
2
Durham
119
Durham, bishop of
82
dynastic marriages
167
dysentery
3
,
120–1
,
229
,
235–6
,
238
Edward, the Black Prince
birth of
43
Poitiers Campaign, 1356
137
,
138
,
140
,
141–2
,
165
generosity
142
personal insignia
142
soubriquet
142
siege of Romorantin
143
status
143
advance to Poitiers
143–4
negotiations at Poitiers
144
at Bordeaux
156–7
return to England, 1357
158
duke of Aquitaine
163
marriage
167
confirmed as the ruler of Aquitaine
168
Spanish campaign, 1367
3
,
170–6
,
171
at Najera
174–5
taxation policies
176–7
Limoges massacre
177–8
return to England, 1371
178
tomb
136
Edward I, King
marriage
20
criticism of
20–1
temper
21
legal reforms
21–2
subjugation of Wales
22
French war
22–3
taxation
22–3
the Great Cause
23–4
the Scottish problem
23–4
Scottish campaigns
24–5
debts
25
and Gaveston
27
professionalization of the army
63
Assize of Arms
68
Edward II, King
homosexuality
25–6
baronial opposition to
27
campaign against Lancaster
28–9
marriage
29–30
Anglo-French relations
31–2
French territories
31–2
war with France
34–6
and Isabella’s invasion
35–6
abdication
37
death
37
burial
37
possible survival
37
Edward III, King
birth
30
homage to Charles IV
32
coronation
37
marriage
37
womanizing
37
peace treaty with Scotland
39–40
claim to the throne of France
2
,
12
,
41–2
homage to Philip VI
42
regency council of state
42
execution of Mortimer
42–4
imposes rule
44–5
Scottish campaigns
45–6
,
49–50
,
66–7
alliances
47
navy
48–9
Flanders campaign, 1339–40
50–3
,
51
proclaims self king of England and France
52
pawns crown
53
return to England, 1340
53
assembles forces, 1340
54
Battle of Sluys
54–8
failure to capture Tournai
58–9
and Breton succession crisis
77
Breton campaign
78–9
embarkation for Crécy Campaign
82–3
Crécy Campaign landing site
85
chevauchée
Crécy Campaign
86
,
88
,
93–4
at Caen
90
at Crécy
99
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
109
siege of Calais
114
,
115
,
120
,
123
and the surrender of Calais
123–4
return to England, 1347
125
truce, 1347
125
foundation of Order of the Garter
125–7
last combat
129
prestige
129
peace negotiations
131–3
,
158–9
,
162
,
163
Poitiers Campaign
138
French campaign
162–3
renounces claim to French throne
163
,
165
and the
routiers
169
Spanish campaign, 1367
170
loss of French territories
177–9
campaign, 1372
178–9
death
179–80
Edward IV, King, invasion of France
281
Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine and countess of Poitiers
15
Eleanor of Castile
20
Elizabeth I, Queen
284
England
2
John’s loss of French territories
18–19
claim to the throne of France
41–2
regency council of state
42
control of French Atlantic coast
48
military system
61–2
economic recovery
131
loss of French territories
177–9
,
275–9
continuance of war, 1386
188–9
impact of Azincourt
251
English army
feudal
61–3
mercenaries
63–4
