Battle of Crécy
battle_name=Battle of Crécy
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.)
- 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.
Among the dead were important nobles such as:
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~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Significance |
| ► | Background |
| ► | English dispositions |
| ► | The battle |
| ► | Casualties |
| ► | Aftermath |
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