Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle

The Battle of Mons -en- Pévèle was held on August 18, 1304 between France and Flanders. The result is evaluated as a French victory since the French had assert the battlefield and probably to carry the Flemish higher losses.

After the Bruges Matins and the defeat at the Battle of the Spurs, the French prepared their reply before thoroughly. The presence of the king and his brothers on the battlefield should emphasize the importance of action and the claim of the French to the power in Flanders. The Flemish commander John of Namur attacked the enemy in or shortly after an attack on Lille, as they retreated on the road to Arras, to secure the connection lines. The French claimed the battlefield and were the Flemings urge to retreat.

After another smaller skirmishes of the Treaty of Athis -sur -Orge other hand, the cities of Lille, Douai and Bethune was born on June 23, 1305 signed by the Flemish independence was recognized on the one hand, passed into French possession. In addition, an enormous compensation was paid by the Flemish. Finally, the French demanded back the Golden Spurs, who had picked up the fallen soldiers of the French cavalry at the Battle of the Spurs in 1302 and hung in the Church of Our Lady in Kortrijk the Flemings.

Source

• Gandenses Annales, ed. by Johann Martin Lappenberg in: Monumenta Historica Germaniae SS 16 (1859 ), pp. 584-588