page_title: Montereau-Fault-Yonne
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Montereau-Fault-Yonne / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque commemorating assassination of John the Fearless, in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France. Text in Middle French: Lan mil quatre cens dix et neuf / sur un pont agencé de neuf / fut meurtry Jehan de Bourgongne / a Montereau ou fault Yonne (In the year fourteen hundred and nineteen / on a bridge, arranged anew / John of Burgundy was killed / at Montereau, where the Yonne falls) Français&#160;: Plaque commémorant l'assassinat de Jean sans Peur, à Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France. Texte de français moyen: Lan mil quatre cens dix et neuf / sur un pont agencé de neuf / fut meurtry Jehan de Bourgongne / a Montereau ou fault Yonne
context_page_description: Montereau-Fault-Yonne, or simply Montereau, is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region, which in turn is in north-central France.
context_section_description: In 1359, the King of Navarre Charles II of Navarre, who held the town because of his Champagne ascent, lost it to the regent of France (the future king Charles V).
  John the Fearless was killed on the town's bridge in September, 1419 by Tanneguy du Chastel and the sire de Barbazan, during a conference with the dauphin (who became in 1422 Charles VII). An inscription on the bridge recalls the event. In the collegiate church Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Loup there is a sword which has long been said to be John the Fearless', but actually this sword is certainly more recent.
  In 1420, Philip the Good, the son of John the Fearless, seized the town, which remained for eight years in the hands of the Anglo-Burgundian coalition. However, at the end of a long siege, the king Charles VII, helped by Chabannes and Dunois, managed to take it again.
  In 1567, during the Wars of Religion, Condé briefly seized the town.
  In 1587, the inhabitants of Montereau sided with the Catholic League, but in 1590 they accepted the legitimacy of the new king Henry IV.
  Montereau was also the place of one of the last victories of Napoleon on 14 February 1814.
caption: Plaque commemorating the murder of John the Fearless, on the bridge crossing the Yonne river.
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