Battle of Roosebeke (1382)

Timeline

1. 1382Ghent · FlandersAfter the Battle of Beverhoutsveld in May 1382, the citizens of Ghent under Philip van Artevelde defeated Count Louis de Male of Flanders and drew Bruges, Ypres, and other cities into an anti-count league; Flanders was plunged into full-scale civil war.
2. 1382Flanders · FlandersKing Charles VI and his uncles the regents (especially Duke Philip II of Burgundy) dispatched troops at the request of the Count of Flanders. The French army mustered south of Arras and marched north; the royal constable Olivier de Clisson commanded the crossing of the Lys and directed the field battle. Duke Louis II of Bourbon accompanied the army but was not the commander-in-chief.
3. 1382Roosebeke · FlandersThe Ghent coalition encountered the Franco-Flanders army near Roosebeke. French heavy cavalry charges and volleys of arrows routed the undisciplined citizen army; Philip van Artevelde was killed in the melee, thousands of rebels were killed or captured, and Ghent's main force suffered a devastating blow.
4. 1382Ghent · FlandersAfter the defeat several Flemish cities sued for peace, but Ghent held out until the Peace of Tournai in 1385. After Louis de Male's death in 1384, his daughter Margaret (who had married Duke Philip II of Burgundy 'the Bold' in 1369) transferred the county to Burgundy.