March to Reims

March to Reims
Part of the Hundred Years' War
Coronation of Charles VII in Reims (miniature from the Vigiles du roi Charles VII (Vigils of King Charles VII) by Martial d'Auvergne, Paris, BnF, Manuscripts department).
Date 24 June – 16 July 1429 Location Gien to Reims, France Result French Victory Coronation of Charles VII in Reims
Belligerents
Kingdom of France	Kingdom of England Burgundian State
Commanders and leaders
Charles VII of France Joan of Arc Jean II d'Alençon Jean de Dunois La Hire Jean de Xaintrailles Ambroise de Loré Jean de Brosse Gilles de Rais Louis de Culant Georges de la Trémoille Charles II of Albret Charles de Bourbon Louis, Count of Vendôme Guy de Montfort-Laval André de Lohéac Jean V de Bueil Gilbert Motier de La Fayette[1] Pierre Bessonneau	Henry VI of England John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford Philip the Good Thomas de Scales John Beaufort, 3rd Earl of Somerset John Fastolf

After the French lifted the siege of Orléans and won a decisive victory at the Battle of Patay, the English and Burgundians no longer posed a threat. Joan of Arc convinced the Dauphin Charles to go to Reims for his coronation. Successfully marching their army though the heart of territory held by the hostile Burgundians solidified the Dauphin’s regrasp of the throne of France. He had been disinherited from it through the Treaty of Troyes.^[2]