1449 in France
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Events from the year 1449 in France.
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Incumbents
Events
- March 24 â Hundred Years' War: English forces capture Fougères in Brittany.[2]
- May â Hundred Years' War:
- July â Hundred Years' War: The French invade Normandy in the Normandy campaign of 1449-1450[2][3]
- August 25 â The French recapture Verneuil after the Siege of Verneuil from July 19 â August 25, 1449.
- October 29 â The French recapture Rouen from the English which the English captured in the 1418/1419 siege of Rouen.[2]
- September â Gaston IV, Count of Foix, favouring the King of France, initiates the reconquest of Guyenne by taking Château de Mauléon.[3]
Births
- October 29 â Peter of Foix the Younger (Fr.: Pierre de Foix, le jeune), French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1490)[5]
Deaths
Date unknown
- Jean de la Trémoille, seigneur of Jonvelle, Grand Master and Grand Chamberlain to the dukes of Burgundy John the Fearless and Philip the Good.[6]
- Barthélémy Texier, Master of the Order of Preachers from 1426
- Tanneguy du Châtel, Grand Master of France and murderer of Duke John the Fearless
