Truce of Malestroit

Commemorative plaque on the ruins of the Chapel of the Madeleine.

The Truce of Malestroit was signed on January 19, 1343 between Edward III of England and Philip VI of France, in the chapel de la Madeleine. After the signing of this truce, the English sovereign and his troops left Bretagne for England.

Scheduled until September 29, the truce was short-term and from the beginning of February Edward III ordered to prepare the embarkation of a military unit for Portsmouth. It is the French king Philippe VI who put an end to the truce by executing without judgement and in the contempt of the terms of agreement in Paris 2 August Olivier IV de Clisson then 29 November fourteen Breton Lords; Geoffroi de Malestroit, Jean de Montauban, Alain de Quédillac, Denis du Plessis, Guillaume II des Brieux and his brothers Jean et Olivier... all supporters of Jean of Montfort. However the hostilities officially retake in 1345 to chase until 1362.

Sources

Georges Bordonove, Les Rois qui ont fait la France - Les Valois - Charles V le Sage, tome 1, éditions Pygmalion, 1988.
Arthur de La Borderie Histoire de la Bretagne réédition Joseph Floch Mayenne (1975), Tome troisième «Rupture de la trêve de Malestroit» p. 481-487.

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