Battle of Crécy

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Casualties

The losses were enormous:

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• French and Genoese casualties are estimated from 10,000 to 30,000. The most likely figure is 12,000. Of these, eleven were princes and 1200 were knights.
• English lost from 150 to 250 men. (This is probably a low estimate, and quite unreliable.)

Among the dead were important nobles such as:

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• Charles II, Count of Alençon, Philip VI's brother (b.1297)
• John I, Count of Luxemburg and King of Bohemia (b.1296)
• Louis I, Count of Flanders (b.1304)
• Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b.1320)
• The blind King of Bohemia who had gone into battle strapped to two other knights.