[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":22},["ShallowReactive",2],{"zoom:p6ch2z5:en":3},{"period":4,"chapter":12,"zoom":15},{"id":5,"title":6,"titleEn":6,"titleEs":7,"range":8,"rangeEn":8,"rangeEs":8,"covers":9},"p6","The Hundred Years' War","La Guerra de los Cien Años","1328 → 1461",[10],{"filename":11,"url":11},"COMTE_Pierre-Charles_Sacre_de_Charles_VII_Huile_sur_toile.jpg",{"id":13,"title":14},"p6ch2","John II the Good: Captivity, Internal Crisis, and the Treaty of Brétigny (1350–1364)",{"id":16,"title":17,"chapterId":13,"html":18,"hasEn":19,"isFallback":20,"seoDescription":21},"p6ch2z5","1360: Treaty of Brétigny, Ransom, and New Territorial Division","\u003Cp>The \u003Cstrong>Treaty of Brétigny\u003C/strong> (1360) marks a major pause in the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War. To free John II and stabilize the kingdom, France accepts a peace that is very costly.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>⛓️ Peace Born of Captivity\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>After Poitiers, the monarchy negotiates under constraint: the king’s captivity, peace proposals discussed in London, and exhaustion caused by raids make a provisional exit necessary. The peace is thus built both on the battlefield and in internal crisis.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>🔍 \u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"/en/zoom/p6ch2z21\">Zoom – 1356–1360: John II’s Captivity, Treaties of London, and the Road to Brétigny\u003C/a>\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🗺️ Peace of Territory\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The treaty redraws the map of sovereignty. England obtains a vast principality in full sovereignty in the west and southwest, around \u003Cstrong>Guyenne/Gascony\u003C/strong>, and retains key points like \u003Cstrong>Calais\u003C/strong>. Added to this are regions and territorial clusters that durably strengthen English control (\u003Cstrong>Poitou, Périgord, Limousin, Angoumois, Saintonge, Agenais\u003C/strong> and neighboring lands).\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>In mirror, \u003Cstrong>Edward III\u003C/strong> renounces several claims and, above all, renounces claiming the \u003Cstrong>crown of France\u003C/strong>: the agreement seeks to defuse the conflict’s heart by separating territorial sovereignty from dynastic claim.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>💰 Peace of Ransom\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The royal ransom weighs on finances: it obliges the levying of resources and organization of transfers. In the agreement, the ransom is fixed around \u003Cstrong>three million crowns\u003C/strong>, guaranteed by \u003Cstrong>hostages\u003C/strong> delivered to England.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Peace does not erase social tensions: it displaces them onto the question of fiscal policy, currency management, and the state’s capacity to pay without provoking political explosion.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🕊️ A Long, But Fragile Truce\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Brétigny opens a truce of about \u003Cstrong>nine years\u003C/strong>. But the ransom is poorly paid, borders remain contested, and the war continues in other forms (companies, raids, diplomatic pressures) before open resumption of the conflict.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧠 To Remember\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>1360: Brétigny puts the ransom at the heart of politics.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Peace is a long truce, but not the end of war.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n",true,false,"The Treaty of Brétigny (1360) marks a major pause in the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War. To free John II and stabilize the kingdom, France accepts a",1782343320211]