Battle of Poitiers
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The Battle of Poitiers was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War.
It was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France.
Edward, the Black Prince, led an army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of them veterans of the Battle of Crécy.
They were attacked by a larger French force led by King John II of France, which included allied Scottish forces.
The French were heavily defeated; an English counter-attack captured King John, along with his youngest son, and much of the French nobility who were present.
The effect of the defeat on France was catastrophic, leaving Dauphin Charles to rule the country.
Charles faced populist revolts across the kingdom in the wake of the battle, which had destroyed the prestige of the French nobility.
The Edwardian phase of the war ended four years later in 1360, on favourable terms for England.
Poitiers was the second major English victory of the Hundred Years' War, coming a decade after the Battle of Crécy and about half a century before the Battle of Agincourt.
The town and battle were often referred to as Poictiers in contemporaneous recordings, a name commemorated by several warships of the Royal Navy.
Following the death of Charles IV of France in 1328, Philip, Count of Valois, had been chosen as his successor and crowned King Philip VI of France, superseding his closest male relative Edward III of England through the ancient tradition of Salic law,
whereby kingship could not be inherited through any maternal line, and thus adhering to agnatic succession.
Edward had been reluctant to pay homage to Philip in his role as Duke of Aquitaine, resulting in Philip's confi...