 In 1450, the Count of Clermont and Arthur de Richemont, Earl of Richmond, of the Montfort family (the future Arthur III, Duke of Brittany) caught an English army attempting to relieve Caen at the Battle of Formigny and defeated it.The English army was attacked from the flank and rear by Richemont's force just as they were on the verge of beating Clermont's army.The French proceeded to capture Caen on July 6 and Bordeaux and Bayonne in 1451.