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Auray
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Auray , town (1990 pop. 10,323), Morbihan dept., NW France, in Brittany, on the Auray River estuary. Oysters are bred, food is...On the Champ des Martyrs, also near Auray, some 800 royalists, who had landed at...
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Auray, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Auray, battle of, 1364. Sir John Chandos , who had fought at Crécy...Brittany against those of Charles de Blois. On 27 September, while besieging Auray, he was attacked by Bertrand du Guesclin. The French were defeated, Blois...
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pilgrim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...include Rome, the Holy Land, Loreto , Compostela, Montserrat (Spain), Fátima , Lourdes , Ste Anne d'Auray (see Auray ), Einsiedeln , Częstochowa , Sainte Anne de Beaupré (Quebec), and Guadalupe Hidalgo (Mexico...
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Saint Anne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...one of the most visited of New World shrines. Brittany, also under her patronage, has the renowned shrine of Ste Anne d'Auray, with its annual pilgrimage. St. Anne is invoked by women in childbirth. In art, she is usually an elderly veiled woman...
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Bertrand Du Guesclin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Navarre. The victory forced Charles II into a new peace with the French king. Du Guesclin was captured in the same year at Auray by English forces under Sir John Chandos. Ransomed by Charles V, who placed him at the head of the "free companies," the...
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Charles of Blois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles of Blois (Charles of Châtillon) , c.1319-1364, duke of Brittany; nephew of Philip VI of France. He was one of the chief participants in the War of the Breton Succession and was killed at the battle of Auray. An extremely pious man, he has been beatified.
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War of the Breton Succession
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...supported by Philip VI, John II, and Charles V of France. The resulting war continued through several truces. In the battle of Auray (1364), Charles of Blois was defeated and killed, despite the support of his faithful follower, Bertrand Du Guesclin...
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Sir John Chandos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...distinction in the Hundred Years War by his bravery at Poitiers (1356) and by his capture (1364) of Bertrand Du Guesclin at Auray. He was made constable of Guienne in 1362 and senechal of Poitiers in 1365. In the Spanish campaign of the Black Prince he...
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Chandos, Sir John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...with France did not end his military activity. In 1364, leading the army of John IV, duke of Brittany, at the battle of Auray , he defeated and killed the rival claimant, Charles de Blois, and captured Bertrand du Guesclin. Three years later, he...
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