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The siege of Harfleur (18 August – 22 September 1415) was conducted by the English army of King Henry V in Normandy, France, during the Hundred Years' War. The defenders of Harfleur surrendered to the English on terms and were treated as prisoners of war. It was the first time that an English army made significant use of gunpowder artillery ...
He regained his father's title on Henry's accession in 1399, and died at the Siege of Harfleur. Thomas de la Pole (1363–1415), William de la Pole (born 1365), Richard de la Pole (c. 1367 – 1402). He died without issue. John de la Pole (c. 1369 – 1415), Anne de la Pole (born c. 1373), widow of Sir Gerard de Lisle.
Harfleur (pronounced) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.. It was the principal seaport in north-western France for six centuries, until Le Havre was built about five kilometres (three miles) downstream in the sixteenth century to take advantage of anchorages less prone to siltation.
Coat of arms of Raoul de Gaucourt. Raoul de Gaucourt, also known as the Sieur de Gaucort or Sire de Gaucourt (c. 1370 –1461), was a French soldier and statesman. He fought at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the Siege of Harfleur in 1415, and spent 10 years as a prisoner in England.
By 1439, he was a field commander in France, with Lords Talbot and Scales. At the siege of Harfleur in 1440, he was made a Knight of the Garter for his part in the campaigns of 1438–39, in particular the capture and garrisoning of Meaux. The town where Henry V had died was a crucial marches town for English Normandy.
He was at the Siege of Harfleur and at the Battle of Agincourt, where he was indented to serve Henry V with 3 archers. [5] He accepted the surrender of Cherbourg. [citation needed] He was made a Knight of the Garter on 3 May 1421. [4] He was a legatee in the will of his cousin, Henry V. [3]
He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415. [1] He was the eldest son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield, daughter of Sir John Wingfield. His father fled abroad amid accusations of treason during the Merciless Parliament in 1388, forfeiting the title of Earl of Suffolk and the family estates. [2]
The Battle of Valmont is the name given to two connected actions which took place between 9 and 11 March 1416 in the area of the towns of Valmont and Harfleur in Normandy. A raiding force under Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, was confronted by a larger French army under Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac at Valmont.