Battle of Cassel crushes Flemish rebels
August 1328
Newly crowned Philip VI led the French army into Flanders to break a peasant rebellion against the count of Flanders. Nicolaas Zannekin's farmers were ridden down on a sandy hill outside Cassel. The Valois opening reign began with a triumph that suggested France could still rule its rich northern fringe.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.