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Before the 14th century, oversight of the collection of royal taxes fell generally to the baillis and sénéchaux in their circumscriptions. Reforms in the 14th and 15th centuries saw France's royal financial administration run by two financial boards which worked in a collegial manner: the four généraux des finances (also called général conseiller or receveur général) oversaw the ...
Antoine Escalin des Aimars March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. July 12 - King Francis I, after allying with Suleiman the Magnificent, declares war once again on Charles V, starting the Italian War of 1542–1546. [2]
The Second Siege of Boulogne was an engagement late in the Italian War of 1542–1546.The Dauphin's army descended on Montreuil, forcing the Duke of Norfolk to raise the siege; Henry VIII himself left for England at the end of September 1544, ordering the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk to defend Boulogne. [4]
A French commander at Agincourt, where he was severely wounded. Rode beside Joan of Arc at the Battle of Patay. Seized power in a bloodless coup at the instigation of Yolande of Aragon in 1433. Used his Burgundian connections to arrange the Treaty of Arras (1435). Reformed the French Kingdom’s finances and army, and created the Ordonnances.
Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1515–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec). She became well known after her subsequent rescue and return to France; her story was recounted in the Heptaméron by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet.
French Military Campaigns 1214 to 1542. Translated by G. F. Nafziger. (self published) Commandant de Coynart. The Battle of Dreux, 1562. Translated by G. F. Nafziger. (self published) Delpech, Henry. The Battle of Muret (1213) and the Cavalry Tactics in the 13th Century. Translated by G. F. Nafziger. Gigon, S.C.,
In 1542, Jean Rotz was hired by King Henry VIII, alongside some other Frenchmen to become privateers which led to the betrayal for King Henry VIII's policy at sea for religious differences. Rotz would eventually betrayed the King and England after King Henry VIII granted his family rights to own land, including his wife Coleta and his children.
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