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Henry attended mass in Tournai Cathedral on 2 October and knighted many of his captains. The town presented Margaret of Austria with a set of tapestries woven with scenes from the Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan. [48] Tournai remained in English hands, with William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy as Governor. The fortifications and ...
The siege of Tournai was an event of the Franco-Flemish War in 1303. Following French defeat at the Battle of the Golden Spurs , the Flemish army entered France, burning the town of Thérouanne and laying siege to Tournai . [ 1 ]
After he captured the city he ordered it to be razed, the roads to be broken up, and the area to be ploughed and salted. [dubious – discuss] [7] Only a small commune which lay outside the city walls, then named Saint-Martin-Outre-Eaux, was left standing, and later (probably around 1800) took over the name Thérouanne. Part of the portal of ...
Siege of Tournai (1340): during the Hundred Years' War, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by the English and their Flemish allies; Siege of Tournai (1513): during Henry VIII of England's campaigns against France; Siege of Tournai (1521): during the Italian War of 1521–1526, the city was taken from the French by the Holy Roman Empire
English troops under Henry VIII besieged Thérouanne, defeated La Palice at the Battle of the Spurs, and captured Tournai. [86] In Navarre, resistance to Ferdinand's invasion collapsed; he rapidly consolidated his hold over the entire region and moved to support another English offensive in the Guyenne . [ 87 ]
After he captured the city he ordered it to be razed to the ground and the roads to be broken up. [4] [5] [6] In 1557, as a result of the war damage to its see, the diocese was abolished. About two decades later the diocese of Boulogne was created, bearing the name Thérouanne for a few years. [7]
The siege of Tournai (23 July - 25 September 1340) occurred during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. The siege began when a coalition of England , Flanders , Hainaut , Brabant and the Holy Roman Empire under the command of King Edward III of England besieged the French city of Tournai .
With a retinue of five hundred men he was present at the capture of Therouanne on 22 August, and of Tournai on 24 September. He was in bad health, and though made lieutenant of Tournai, on 20 January 1514 William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy succeeded him. But through most of 1514 Poynings was in the Netherlands, engaged in diplomatic work.