Poitiers: the Black Prince captures John II of France
September 1356
Edward of Woodstock, with maybe seven thousand men, lured the French royal army onto a constricted vineyard slope south of Poitiers. Longbows did the rest. King John was taken alive along with his youngest son Philip. The ransom would crush French royal finance and trigger years of peasant revolt and political collapse.
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