Montlhéry - 16 juillet 1465 Normandie the Renaissance navy

the Renaissance navy

Cette bataille de rencontre n'ayant pas permis par sa soudaineté l'évacuation de tous les habitants

almost by chance

Almost twenty years after the humiliation of Pavia where King Francis I was taken prisoner by the soldiers of his enemy Charles V

Montlhéry - 16 juillet 1465 Normandie the Renaissance navyBorn of a political crisis between the king and the great of the kingdom, The League of Public Good almost condemned King Louis XI. For nearly three years, this rebellion led by Charles of Burgundy, Franois II of Brittany and Charles de Berry, the king's own brother, swayed power. To oppose them, the king raised an army of the faithful (Normans, Savoyards, Dauphinois) and his famous prescription spears. During the Battle of Montlhry (July 16, 1465), a