...in the south, a larger army under …
Years: 1542 - 1542
August
...in the south, a larger army under Claude d'Annebault and Francis's eldest son, the Dauphin Henry, unsuccessfully besiege the city of Perpignan in northern Spain.
Francis himself is meanwhile in La Rochelle, dealing with a revolt caused by popular discontent with a proposed reform of the gabelle tax.
Locations
People
- Charles II d'Angoulême, Duke of Orléans
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Claude d'Annebault
- Francis I of France
- Henry II of France
Groups
Topics
- Ottoman-Habsburg Wars
- Protestant Reformation
- Little War in Hungary
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Anglo-Scottish War of 1542-49 (War of The Rough Wooing)
- Anglo-French War of 1542-46
- Italian War of 1542-6, or Italian War between Charles V and Francis I, Fourth
