Normandy campaign of 1449–1450

Normandy campaign of 1449-1450
	Part of the Hundred Years' War
Date	1449 – 12 August 1450
Location	Duchy of Normandy
Result	French and Breton victory - Normandy annexed to France.
Belligerents
Kingdom of France ; Duchy of Brittany	Kingdom of England ; Duchy of Normandy
Commanders and leaders
Charles VII of France ; Charles I, Duke of Bourbon ; Francis I, Duke of Brittany # ; Arthur de Richemont ; Jean Bureau ; Prigent de Coëtivy † ; André de Lohéac ; Guy XIV de Laval ; Pierre de Brézé ; Jean II de Bourbon	Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset ; William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk X ; Thomas Kyriell (POW)

The Normandy campaign of 1449-1450 took place during the Hundred Years War when the kingdom of France undertook a military campaign to retake the Duchy of Normandy from the English. Following the decisive victory of the French at the battle of Formigny and after the fall of Cherbourg, the last English stronghold in Normandy, English control of Normandy was removed.

References

Nicolle, David. The Fall of English France 1449–53. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. ISBN 1849086176

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