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).
Date24 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]

  1. ^ d’après d’autre source il semble ne pas avoir participé http://jean-claude.colrat.pagesperso-orange.fr/1lafayette.htm
  2. ^ "treaty of Troyes". Oxford Reference.