Black Prince sacks Limoges
September 1370
Furious that the city had defected to the French, the dying Edward of Woodstock had himself carried in a litter to oversee the assault. His men slaughtered three thousand townspeople in three days. The atrocity stained the Black Prince's chivalric reputation forever. He would die in England six years later.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.