| Siege of La Rochelle, 1224 | |||||||||
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| Part of the Capetian–Angevin feuds | |||||||||
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Siege_de_La_Rochelle_en_1224.jpg) Detail of a medieval miniature of the siege of La Rochelle. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Arms_of_the_Kings_of_France_(France_Ancien).svg){kind=small} Kingdom of France |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Blason_region_fr_Aquitaine.svg){kind=small} Duchy of Aquitaine&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Royal_arms_of_England.svg){kind=small} Kingdom of England | ||||||||
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Louis VIII |
Savari de Mauléon Geoffrey de Neuville | ||||||||
The siege of La Rochelle of 1224 was the decisive engagement in the campaign between the Capetians and the Plantagenets for control of Poitou. French royal forces commanded by Capetian king Louis VIII laid siege to the strategic port of La Rochelle and its garrison of Poitevin and English soldiers commanded by Savari de Mauléon. The port had long been a staging ground for Plantagenet efforts to regain their continental lands lost to the French crown since 1203. The siege lasted from July to August 1224, and resulted in La Rochelle's citizens surrendering the city to Louis after the failure of English relief to emerge. The siege of La Rochelle was the crowning event of the Capetian conquest of Poitou from the Plantagenets.[1] With Poitou in Capetian hands, only Gascony remained under Plantagenet rule on the continent.