Pale of Calais

The Pale of Calais () was a region in what is now France, which was controlled by the monarchs of England following the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent siege. Pale is an archaic English term for "area, jurisdiction".See also: The English Pale in Ireland. Its capture by the English is the subject of Auguste Rodin's 1889 sculpture The Burghers of Calais. In 1558, the expanding Kingdom of France annexed the Pale of Calais in the aftermath of the Siege of Calais.
The region was represented in the Parliament of England by members sitting for the Calais constituency.
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