Events from the year 1449 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles VII
Events
March 24 – Hundred Years' War: English forces capture Fougères in Brittany. May – Hundred Years' War: The French recapture Gerberoy The French recapture Cognac The French recapture Saint-Mégrin The French recapture Conches following the capture of Château de Conches-en-Ouche led by The French recapture Pont-de-l'Arche July – Hundred Years' War: The French invade Normandy in the Normandy campaign of 1449-1450 August 25 – The French recapture Verneuil after the Siege of Verneuil from July 19 – August 25, 1449. October 29 – The French recapture Rouen from the English which the English captured in the 1418/1419 siege of Rouen. September – Gaston IV, Count of Foix, favouring the King of France, initiates the reconquest of Guyenne by taking Château de Mauléon.
Births
October 29 – Peter of Foix the Younger (Fr.: Pierre de Foix, le jeune), French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1490)
Deaths Date unknown
Jean de la Trémoille, seigneur of Jonvelle, Grand Master and Grand Chamberlain to the dukes of Burgundy John the Fearless and Philip the Good.Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler Werkstücke, D 3) 2nd., improved edition, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, , pp. 24f., Nr. 11. Barthélémy Texier, Master of the Order of Preachers from 1426 Tanneguy du Châtel, Grand Master of France and murderer of Duke John the Fearless
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