Charles V

Timeline

1. 1356–1364Paris · Île-de-FranceAfter his father John II was captured at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, Charles served as regent as heir apparent, quelling Parisian civic unrest (such as the Marcel affair), gradually stabilizing the situation after signing the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, and was formally crowned after his father's death in 1364.
2. 1371–1375Kingdom of France · FranceIn 1370 he appointed Bertrand du Guesclin Marshal of France, adopting a strategy of avoiding pitched battles and wearing down the English through small-scale raids. In the 1370s he successively recovered Poitou, Anjou, and other areas, and strengthened fiscal measures such as the salt tax to sustain the long war.
3. 1376–1380Vincennes · Île-de-FranceIn the late 1370s Charles V's health deteriorated from long overwork, yet he still coordinated the Brittany and southwestern fronts through the royal council and his brother the Duke of Anjou and other royals. He died in September 1380, and the eleven-year-old Charles VI succeeded him; du Guesclin also died in campaign that same year.