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Bretigny Marriage
Edward the Black Prince
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Treaty of Bretigny
"By virtue of this treaty, Edward III obtained, besides Guyenne and Gascony, Poitou, Saintonge and Aunis, Agenais, Périgord, Limousin, Quercy, Bigorre, the countship of Gauré, Angoumois, Rouergue, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Ponthieu, Calais, Sangatte, Ham and the countship of Guînes. The king of England was to hold these free and clear, without doing homage for them. Furthermore, the treaty established that title to 'all the islands that the King of England now holds' would no longer be under the suzerainty of the King of France. The title Duke of Aquitaine was abandoned in favor of Lord of Aquitaine.
On his side, the King of England gave up the duchy of Touraine, the countships of Anjou and Maine, the suzerainty of Brittany and of Flanders. He also renounced all claims to the French throne. The terms of Brétigny were meant to untangle the feudal responsibilities that had caused so much conflict, and, as far as the English were concerned, would concentrate English territories in an expanded version of Aquitaine. England also restored the rights of the Bishop of Coutances to Alderney, which had been stripped from them by the King of England in 1228.
John II had to pay three million écus for his ransom, and would be released after he paid one million. The occasion was the first minting of the franc, equivalent to one livre tournois (twenty sous). As a guarantee for the payment of his ransom, John gave his daughter, Marie as the bride of Edward the Black Prince and his infant granddaughter, Philippa of Clarence is betrothed to Philip of France. This treaty was ratified and sworn to by the two kings and by their eldest sons, Edward, the Black Prince and the dauphin Charles on 24 October 1360 at Calais. At the same time, the special conditions relating to each important article of the treaty and the renunciatory clauses in which the kings abandoned their rights over the territory they had yielded to one another was signed. Edward III retired finally to England."
Thus, the possible marriage between the controversial Joan of Holland and Edward the black prince was prevented and he instead married Marie of France who is currently 16 years old but Joan is kept as a mistress of the black Prince, Marie was married to Edward as a guarantee and Isabella, the younger daughter of the King of France is married to the heir of Bar who was Marie's fiance prior to the treaty.
Edward the Black Prince
Verse 1
Treaty of Bretigny
"By virtue of this treaty, Edward III obtained, besides Guyenne and Gascony, Poitou, Saintonge and Aunis, Agenais, Périgord, Limousin, Quercy, Bigorre, the countship of Gauré, Angoumois, Rouergue, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Ponthieu, Calais, Sangatte, Ham and the countship of Guînes. The king of England was to hold these free and clear, without doing homage for them. Furthermore, the treaty established that title to 'all the islands that the King of England now holds' would no longer be under the suzerainty of the King of France. The title Duke of Aquitaine was abandoned in favor of Lord of Aquitaine.
On his side, the King of England gave up the duchy of Touraine, the countships of Anjou and Maine, the suzerainty of Brittany and of Flanders. He also renounced all claims to the French throne. The terms of Brétigny were meant to untangle the feudal responsibilities that had caused so much conflict, and, as far as the English were concerned, would concentrate English territories in an expanded version of Aquitaine. England also restored the rights of the Bishop of Coutances to Alderney, which had been stripped from them by the King of England in 1228.
John II had to pay three million écus for his ransom, and would be released after he paid one million. The occasion was the first minting of the franc, equivalent to one livre tournois (twenty sous). As a guarantee for the payment of his ransom, John gave his daughter, Marie as the bride of Edward the Black Prince and his infant granddaughter, Philippa of Clarence is betrothed to Philip of France. This treaty was ratified and sworn to by the two kings and by their eldest sons, Edward, the Black Prince and the dauphin Charles on 24 October 1360 at Calais. At the same time, the special conditions relating to each important article of the treaty and the renunciatory clauses in which the kings abandoned their rights over the territory they had yielded to one another was signed. Edward III retired finally to England."
Thus, the possible marriage between the controversial Joan of Holland and Edward the black prince was prevented and he instead married Marie of France who is currently 16 years old but Joan is kept as a mistress of the black Prince, Marie was married to Edward as a guarantee and Isabella, the younger daughter of the King of France is married to the heir of Bar who was Marie's fiance prior to the treaty.
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