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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 4215556, member: 77704&quot;]Mouton d&#039;or ND</p><p>Jean II[ATTACH=full]1079747[/ATTACH] Le Bon 1350-64</p><p>France</p><p>Jean II became King of France at a bad time. English armies occupied most of France. The &quot;Black Death&quot; had killed off fifty percent of the French population. To add insult to injury, marauding bands of rabble named Jacqueries where pillaging and causing havoc all over France. In 1356, he got crushed at the Battle of Poitiers, English longbowmen decimating the French heavy horsemen. He was taken prisoner to London, by 1360 his son (future Charles V) concluded the Treaty of Bretigy/ upon which France ceded Territory to the English, plus 3 million gold crowns. He died a broken man in 1364.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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