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The English were reinforced by 800 men under Robert of Artois a few days after landing, and absorbed several small English forces and an unknown number of John of Montfort's Breton partisans. This force marched 50 kilometres (30 mi) from Brest to Morlaix, a port on the north coast of Brittany with strong fortifications and a secure harbour, and ...
Bretons were the most prominent of the non-Norman forces in the Norman conquest of England. A number of Breton families were of the highest rank in the new society and were tied to the Normans by marriage. [14] The Scottish Clan Stewart and the royal House of Stuart have Breton origins.
Brittany was a province of France, but although the dukes of Brittany were vassals of the French kings they governed the duchy as independent rulers. [1] [2] [3] Nevertheless, when the Hundred Years' War broke out in 1337 between France and England the Duke of Brittany, John III (r.
The English were reinforced by 800 men under Robert of Artois a few days after landing, and absorbed several small English forces and an unknown number of John of Montfort's Breton partisans. This force marched 50 kilometres (30 mi) from Brest to Morlaix, a port on the north coast of Brittany with strong fortifications and a secure harbour, and ...
The battle of Morlaix was fought near the village of Lanmeur in Brittany on 30 September 1342 between an Anglo-Breton army and a far larger Franco-Breton force. England, at war with France since 1337 in the Hundred Years' War, had sided with John of Montfort's faction in the Breton Civil War shortly after it broke out in 1341.
Funeral of John III, Duke of Brittany, depicted in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart. The War of the Breton Succession (French: guerre de Succession de Bretagne, Breton: Brezel hêrezh dugelezh Breizh) was a conflict between the Counts of Blois and the Montforts of Brittany for control of the Duchy of Brittany, then a fief of the Kingdom of France.
A force of French and mercenary galleys cruised off the north Breton coast, but there was so little English naval activity that they were beached and their crews went ashore to fight as infantry. A small English force, 234 men, arrived under Sir Walter Mauny in May.
The commander of the Anglo-Breton faction was Sir Thomas Dagworth, [1] a veteran professional soldier who had served with his overlord King Edward III for many years and was trusted to conduct the Breton war in an effective manner whilst Edward was raising funds in England and planning the invasion of Normandy for the following year, which would eventually result in the crushing battle of Crécy.