One of its victors, who was sixteen years old at the time, was Edward of Woodstock, who is now known as Edward the Black Prince.
Two of the Frenchmen who died at this battle were Louis the First, Count of Flanders, and Louis the Second, Count of Blois. This battle began on orders from Philip the Fortunate, who at its end retreated to a castle at Broye (brwah). One of the people who died in this battle, who insisted on fighting even though he had been blind for ten years, was John of Bohemia. One of its victors, who was sixteen years old at the time, was Edward of Woodstock, who is now known as Edward the Black Prince. The French sealed their defeat in this battle from the beginning when they refused to call up the shield bearers for the Genoese crossbowmen. Identify this 1346 battle of the Hundred Years'  War in which the French army was decimated by the English longbow, a precursor to the English siege of Calais (kaa-LAY).
Two of the Frenchmen who died at this battle were Louis the First, Count of Flanders, and Louis the Second, Count of Blois.
Battle of Crécy