• Wennington challenges ships of the Hanseatic League. May 14 – Second Siege of Sfetigrad (1449): The Albanian garrison surrenders and the Ottomans seize the fortress...
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    recaptured the town in 1449. Rouen was staunchly Catholic during the French Wars of Religion, and underwent an unsuccessful five-month siege in 1591/2 by the...
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    Paris before coming to Rouen where he was acclaimed by the crowds. The king of France Charles VII recaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death...
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    95 kilometres (59 mi) north-west of Paris and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Rouen. Construction began in 1196 under the auspices of Richard the Lionheart...
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    artillery officer during the Normandy campaign (1449–1450), when his bombardments helped capture the towns of Rouen, Harfleur, and Honfleur, and aided in the...
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  • II and Catherine de' Medici. 1562 - Siege of Rouen. 1583 - Codified Norman law published. 1591 - Siege of Rouen. 1593 - Collège de Bourbon established...
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    humiliating moment was when Somerset surrendered Rouen, the capital of Normandy, to the French without even a token siege. He failed to repulse French attacks, and...
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    siège d'Orléans dans le Jouvencel de Jean de Bueil". Cahiers de recherches médiévales (in French) (12): 102. doi:10.4000/crm.725. ISSN 2115-6360. de Bueil...
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    Seigneur of La Fayette (1425–1486). Charles was knighted at the siege of Rouen in 1449. In 1466, he commanded fifty Lances fournies. In 1468, Charles attended...
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    captured Rouen in October, Harfleur in December, then Honfleur and Fresnoy in January 1450, before investing Caen. During the winter of 1449, the English...
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  • 2019. Léost, Dominique (2013). Au péril de la mer et des Anglais., Guillaume Cousinot, bailli de Rouen (1449-1461) (in French). Haute-Normandie Archéologique...
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    through the actions of a heretic. Prior to 1449, a full reexamination of Joan's trial was not possible because Rouen, where the documents of Joan's trial were...
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    able to recover town after town. By 1449, the French had retaken Rouen. In 1450, the Count of Clermont and Arthur de Richemont, Earl of Richmond, of the...
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  • 1435: Burgundy switches sides, signing the Treaty of Arras. 1449: The French recapture Rouen. 1450: An English attempt to relieve Caen is defeated at the...
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    strokes. Between 1445 and 1449 the English were again in possession, but the town was recovered for the French by Jean de Dunois in 1450. In 1562, the...
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  • Knapton). Tuetey, A. [in French], ed. (1881). Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 1405–1449 (in French). Paris: Honoré Champion. OCLC 7473058. Vaughan, R. (2004)...
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  • France La Hire defeats an English force under Arundel. 1449 Battle of Rouen France 29 October, Rouen is regained from the English by a Brittany-French force...
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    the disputed king of France) as Constable of France. Taken hostage at Rouen in 1449 he promised never to wear armour against the French King again. He was...
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    prolonged siege would now fall after a few days from cannon bombardment. The French artillery developed a reputation as the best in the world. By 1449, the...
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    King Henry VI, took control of his duchy. He would not regain Alençon until 1449, but remained the titular duke in the eyes of the French crown. When he left...
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    marriage negotiations regarding Henry VI. When parliament met in November 1449, the opposition showed its strength by forcing the treasurer, Adam Moleyns...
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    Parakrama Wardhana, succeeds Suhita as ruler of Majapahit. 1449: Saint Srimanta Sankardeva was born. 1449: Esen Tayisi leads an Oirat Mongol invasion of China...
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    unmarried, aged 17, whilst fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the Siege of Rouen in France, under the command of their uncle Thomas Beaufort, Duke of...
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    taking Caen, he quickly conquered Lower Normandy and Rouen was cut off from Paris and besieged. This siege has cast an even darker shadow on the reputation...
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    years in the French wars'. He was at the siege of Caen in 1417, the siege of Rouen in July 1418, and the siege of Melun from July to November 1420. He...
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    France, leading to her execution in the marketplace of Rouen. When the French retook Rouen in 1449, a series of investigations were launched. Her now-widowed...
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    Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383–1451), Pope Felix V from 1439 to 1449. Gauvain de Candie, count of Berruyre, novelist and poet of the House of Candia...
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    Edward IV (category People from Rouen)
    made chief governor of Ireland, although he did not take up the post until 1449. Shortly thereafter, a French offensive recaptured Normandy, leaving Calais...
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    Battle of Gerberoy (category Battles in Hauts-de-France)
    "La Bataille de Gerberoy". Miroir de l'Histoire (in French). ISSN 0544-3938. Pillet, Jean (1679). Histoire du Château et de la Ville de Gerberoy. Rouen....
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    Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons...
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