Hundred Years War Timeline 1371

1371
1371		Cardinal Pierre Roger de Beaufort is elected Pope, and crowned as Gregory IX. [Froissart's Chronicle image (15thc. BNF, FR 2643)]
1371		Louis d'Anjou opens hearings on the miracles of Charles of Blois.
1371	January	Prince Edward leaves Bordeaux for England, giving the rule of the Aquitaine over to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
1371	23 April	Jean IV de Montfort orders his garrison at Champtoceaux to hold firm against French Pressure
1371		The house of Lords resolves that Clergy cannot hold the offices of Chancellor, Treasurer, Barons of the Exchequer or Clerks of the Privy Council.
1371	28 May	A son is born to Philippe the Bold, duke of Burgundy and Marguerite de Male. This is the future Jean sans Peur (John the Fearless).
1371	August	Olivier III de Clisson is ordered by Charles V to relieve Moncontour, under siege by Henry Percy. It falls before he can arrive. [Froissart's Chronicle image (15thc. BNF, FR 2643)]
1372
1372		Due to his intransigence in returning Reggio and some other places that were supposedly possessions of the Holy See Pope Gregory XI declares war on Bernabo Visconti, Duke of Milan.
1372	March	Encouraged by Pope Gregory XI, a peace conference between the English and the French meets in Calais. It results in no tangible success.
1372	14 June	Olivier de Clisson, Bertrand du Guesclin and the remainder of the French Command are at Loches.
1372	22-23 June	The French galley fleet, under the command of Ranier Grimaldi, and a Castillian squadron sent by Enrique, defeat a large fleet under the Earl of Pembroke, off La Rochelle. [Froissart's Chronicle image (15thc. BNF, FR 2643)] The Earl is taken captive to Spain, and loss of this fleet allows the French to take most of Poitou, Saintogne and Angoumois unopposed in the next month.
1372	Early July	Moncontour is retaken by the French.
1372	29 July	Saint-Sevère falls to the French. De Clisson's friend, a Breton squire named Geoffroy Payen, is taken captive to Benon.
1372	August	King Edward III and Prince Edward sail from Sandwich with 400 ships, carrying 4,000 men at arms and 10,000 archers for France, but after six weeks of bad weather and being blown off course they are driven back to England.
1372	7 August	Bertrand du Guesclin enters Poitiers in Triumph
1372	28 August	Philippe, duke of Burgundy, arrives at Poitiers, and begins negotiating with the locals.
1372	Second Week of September	Olivier III de Clisson invests Benon for siege. The English commander, one David Hollengrave, executes some of his prisoners, Geoffroy Payen amongst them. De Clisson is so outraged at the killing of his friend that he is said to have executed 15 prisoners in revenge when Benon fell to him.
1372	Late September	Treaty of Surgères: Bertrand du Guesclin, Olivier III de Clisson, and the ducs of Berry and Bourbon conclude a peace with the prelates and nobles of Poitou and Saintonge, who promise full allegiance to Charles V if the English do not aid them by the end of November.
1372	October	Prince Edward resigns his Principality of Aquitaine, retiring to his castle at Berkhampstead.
1372		Jean de Montfort, duc de Bretagne, repudiates his fealty to King Charles and flees to England.
1372		The French recover La Rochelle and its surrounding countryside. The Captal de Buch is captured and, contrary to Chivalrous tradition, thrown into prison in the Temple, in Paris. He is given the choice to come over, at which he will be released, but refuses to do so.
1372		Engurrand de Coucy faces Sir John Hawkwood, who is laying siege to Asti, in Savoy. Hawkwood is faced with the inability to command due to the guardians of the nominal commander, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Galeazzo's son. Unable to make the assault he wishes he strikes camp and leaves. De Coucy relieves Asti.
1372	December	Engurrand de Coucy is named Captain-General of the Papal troops in the Lombardy region.
1373
1373	January	Coucy and Hawkwood meet up east of Parma, marching on Milan and a meeting there with Amadeus of Savoy.
1373	'Early in the year'	A peace conference between the English and the French meets in Bruges, again without success.
1373	February	Amadeus of Savoy enters Milanese territory, having come to an agreement of neutrality with Galeazzo Visconti, who is his sisters husband.
1373	26 February	Coucy and Hawkwood are called off, while the Pope negotiates with Bernabo Visconti. This is a ruse on Bernabo's part to gain time.
1373		Amadeus, having circled Milan to the north, is pinned down by the Duke of Bavaria, Bernabo Visconti's son in law.
1373	April	Battle of Montichiari. Coucy and Hawkwood triumph over the forces of the Visconti. Coucy and Hawkwood withdraw to Bologna. Having fought his way out of Bavaria's clutches Savoy meets them there.
1373	July	Coucy, Hawkwood and Savoy march westward.
1373		John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, lands in Calais with 3,000 men at arms and 8,000 archers. Though theoretically seeking a decisive battle Lancaster did not proceed directly to the Aquitaine, but instead pillaged his way around Paris, through Champagne, Burgundy and Auvergne.
1373	August	Siege of Piacenza. The matter comes to no conclusion, and ends when Amadeus becomes ill. The papal offensive disintegrates.
1373	Christmas	John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster arrives in Bordeaux with 6,000 of his original 11,000.
1374
1374		Plague returns to Italy and southern France.
1374		Petrarch, Poet, scholar and curmudgeon extrordinaire, dies.
1374		Pope Gregory XI approves the founding the Order of the Spanish Hermits of St. Jerome.
1374	January	Attempting to bring the companies under control the French government issues an ordinance providing for a system of authorized companies, with fixed pay rates, and captains appointed by the crown, who would forbid pillage and be responsible for the action of their men. This did not achieve any notable success.
1374	January	At Perigueux Bertrand du Guesclin and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster negotiate a truce covering the Aquitaine.
1374	23 January	Engurrand de Coucy is released from his service by the Pope, and returns to France.
1374	June	Edward III decides he is ready to negotiate a truce. After some delay Charles V agrees to a truce of two years, and sends envoys to Bruges to discuss the matter.
1374	6 June	Pope Gregory XI, in alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor, the queen of Naples, the king of Hungary and with the paid services of Sir John Hawkwood, force Bernabo Visconti, duke of Milan, to come to terms. Bernabo bribes several of the negotiators to give him favorable terms.
1374		Pope Gregory announces the right of the Inquisition to intervene in sorcery trials. This had previously been considered a purely civil matter.
1374	November	Charles V appoints de Coucy as a Marshal of France, but de Coucy declines the honor.
1375
1375	Early in the year	A marriage is arranged between William, heir to the Counties of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, which has the result that the Count of Hainault is drawn towards the French side of the conflict.
1375		The Florentines, worried about the growing power of the papacy in central Italy, ally themselves with Bernabo Visconti, duke of Milan, and begin agitating against the pope in the Papal States. Their resultant success soon has the Papal States in rebellion against the pope. Unfortunately for them, the pope excommunicates Florence, and places it under interdict, outlawing the citizens.
1375	January	A peace conference gathers at Bruges. This appears to be a more serious attempt, as it is led on either side by princes of royal blood. For the English, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and for the French Philippe le Hardi, duke of Burgundy. Philippe is given a monthly salary of 5,000 lt for the duration, and proceeds to host the English with great pomp, taking a large retinue in livery made specifically for the occasion, arranging for a large shipment of Burgundian wine.
1375	March	Three carts, pulled by fifteen horses in total, of tapestries and robes arrive in Bruges where the conference is beginning in earnest.
1375	27 June	A peace cannot be agreed upon at the conference in Bruges, but they settle for a truce, which is to run from 27 June 1375 until dawn on 30 June 1376, in the north of France and in England, and from the 22 July in the rest of France, to give it time to be disseminated. They also agree to further negotiations in the fall.
1375	1 July	The peace conference at Bruges closes with a magnificent feast given by Philippe, duke of Burgundy attended by all the participants in the conference.
1375	28 December	The peace conference re-convenes in Bruges. Philippe, duke of Burgundy is joined by Louis, duc d'Anjou on the French side, and John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster is joined by Edmund, earl of Cambridge on the English side. The negotiations that follow produce nothing other than an extension of the truce until 1 April, 1377.

Timeline for the Hundred Years War

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