page_title: Battle of Taillebourg
section_title: The aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Taillebourg / The aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry III does homage to Saint Louis Čeština: Jindřich III. Plantagenet a Ludvík IX. Svatý
context_page_description: The Battle of Taillebourg, a major medieval battle fought in July 1242, was the decisive engagement of the Saintonge War. It pitted a French Capetian army under the command of King Louis IX and his younger brother Alphonse of Poitiers against forces led by King Henry III of England, his brother Richard of Cornwall and their stepfather Hugh X of Lusignan.
  The battle was fought on the bridge built over the Charente River, a point of strategic importance on the route between northern and southern France. Later it was fought near the city of Saintes. The English and their allies were disgracefully beaten and were forced to make peace but the mild and pious King of France contented himself of leaving things as they had been before the war. The battle put down the Poitevin revolt and marked the end of Henry III's hopes of restoring the Angevin Empire, which collapsed during his father's reign.
context_section_description: Louis continued to pursue the English troops, capturing many prisoners, until arriving upon the city of Saintes. After a short siege, the keys of the city were handed to Louis by the citizens. Henry tried one last time to prevent a complete takeover of his lands in Aquitaine and Gasgony by organizing the blockade of La Rochelle by sea. However, the blockade failed along with the attempt to rebuild an army and build an alliance with other European monarchs. On January 1243, Henry sent a letter to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom he had made a request for an alliance earlier, announcing the end of his hopes for retaking his possessions in France. On 12 March, Henry was forced to ask Louis for a five-year truce.
  The truce was signed at Pons, on 1 August. A more lasting peace was concluded at Paris, on 4 December 1259, amidst the threat of a second Baron's war in England. The king of France restored Guyenne to Henry as a noble gesture and to seek for further peace so that he could go on a crusade. Though if he had chosen, he might have forced Henry to surrender Bordeaux and Guyenne, the last possessions of the English crown beyond the seas.
  The settlement of the feudal revolt was less advantageous for Hugh of Lusignan. His Poitevin castles were confiscated, rearmed, and sold by Alphonse of Poitiers. His daughter Isabel of Lusignan was married to his enemy Geoffrey of Rancon, lord of Gençay, in 1250, who rebuilt his castle with the dowry.
caption: Henry III does homage to Louis IX.
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