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Tournai remained in English hands, with William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy as Governor. The fortifications and a new citadel were reconstructed between August 1515 and January 1518, costing around £40,000. Work ceased because Henry VIII planned to restore the town to France. Tournai was returned by treaty on 4 October 1518.
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 ]
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
The siege of Tournai was a siege of the city of Tournai, then part of the Kingdom of France, between 28 June and 3 September 1709. [1] A Grand Alliance army under the British Duke of Marlborough successfully forced the surrender of the French garrison during the War of the Spanish Succession .
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 ...
The coalition reached Tournai on 23 July. [7] Edward's forces were supported by Flemish militia led by Jacob van Artevelde, the armies of William II, the Count of Hainaut and the Holy Roman Empire sent by Louis IV. [5] [8] At the end of July, the survivors of the Battle of Saint-Omer arrived at Tournai and joined the
The siege of Tournai was a two-month siege of the city and citadel of Tournai, then part of the Austrian Netherlands, in 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession. The allied Pragmatic Army 's attempt to relieve the siege resulted in the decisive French victory at the Battle of Fontenoy on 11 May.
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]