Treaty of Picquigny

The treated of Picquigny is signed with Picquigny (currently, department of the Somme) the August 29th 1475 between Louis XI and Edouard IV.
It puts definitively fine at the Guerre One hundred Year old which was " endormie" in 1453 after the Battle of Castillon.

Edouard IV, against a sum of 75 000 crowns of gold and an annual pension of 50 000 crowns of gold, turned over in England with its army and renonça to its alliance with the Duc of Burgundy Charles Bold the.

This treaty satisfied the two parts: Edouard IV of England claimed to receive a tribute of France thus, while Louis XI of France affirmed to about it provide to a pension the king of England.

Thanks to the talents of negotiators of Louis XI, the English invasion finishes without any victim and the two armies feast together during a whole day in the countryside of Picquigny.

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