Treaty of Crepy

September 18, 1544

Francis I and Charles V signed a peace at Crepy-en-Laonnois after French armies had reached within sight of the Channel coast. The treaty left Italian questions unresolved, and both monarchs were too exhausted to pretend otherwise. Within a year Francis was planning his next war. The treaty's failure to resolve the Franco-Habsburg rivalry ensured peace would be temporary, as both sides prepared for renewed conflict.