Editing Battle of Poitiers (section)

== Aftermath ==
===March to Bordeaux===

The French were concerned the victorious Anglo-Gascons would attempt to storm Poitiers or other towns, or continue their devastation. The Black Prince was more concerned with getting his army with its prisoners and loot safely back to Gascony. He was aware many Frenchmen had survived the battle, but unaware of their state of cohesion or morale. The Anglo-Gascons moved {{convert|3|mi|sigfig=1}} south on 20{{nbs}}September and tended the wounded, buried the dead, paroled some of their prisoners, and reorganised their formations.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=193}} On 21{{nbs}}September the Anglo-Gascons continued their interrupted march south, travelling slowly, overladen as they were with plunder and prisoners. On 2 October they entered [[Libourne]] and rested while a triumphal entrance was arranged at Bordeaux.{{sfn|Sumption|1999|p=248}} Two weeks later the Black Prince escorted John into Bordeaux amid ecstatic scenes.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=197}}

===Peace===
{{more|Reims campaign|Treaty of Brétigny}}
[[File:Map- France at the Treaty of Bretigny (cropped).jpg|thumbnail|upright=1.1|alt=A map of Medieval France showing the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Brétigny|{{center|France after the 1360 [[Treaty of Brétigny]]; French territory in green, English territory in pink}}]]

The Black Prince's {{lang|fr|[[chevauchée]]}} is described by Rogers as "the most important campaign of the Hundred Years' War".{{sfn|Rogers|2014|p=348}} In its aftermath English and Gascon forces raided widely across France, against little or no opposition.{{sfn|Sumption|1999|pp=250, 267, 271, 274}} With no effective central authority France dissolved into near anarchy.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=62}}{{sfn|Rogers|2014|pp=393, 395}} In March 1357 a truce was agreed for two years.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=201}} In April the Black Prince sailed for England, accompanied by his prisoner, John, and landed at Plymouth on 5 May.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=201}} They proceeded to London and a rapturous reception.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=62}} Protracted negotiations between John and Edward III led to the [[Treaty of London (1358)|First Treaty of London]] in May 1358, which would have ended the war with a large transfer of French territory to England and the payment of a ransom for John's freedom. The French government was unenthusiastic and was anyway unable to raise the first instalment of the ransom, causing the treaty to lapse.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=202}} A peasant revolt known as the {{lang|fr|[[jacquerie]]}} broke out in northern France during the spring of 1358 and was bloodily put down in June.{{sfn|Wagner|2006d|}} At length John and Edward agreed the [[Treaty of London (1359)|Second Treaty of London]], which was similar to the first except that even larger swathes of French territory would be transferred to the English. In May 1359 this was similarly rejected by the Dauphin and the [[Estates General (France)|Estates General]].{{sfn|Green|2011|pp=62–63}}

In October 1359 Edward III led [[Reims campaign|another campaign]] in northern France. It was unopposed by French forces but was unable to take any strongly fortified places.{{sfn|Curry|2002|p=45}} Instead the English army spread out and for six months devastated much of the region.{{sfn|Hoskins|2011|p=203}} Both countries were finding it almost impossible to finance continued hostilities, but neither was inclined to change their attitude to the proposed peace terms. On 13 April 1360, near Chartres, a sharp fall in temperature and a heavy hail storm killed many English baggage horses and some soldiers. Taking this as a sign from God, Edward reopened negotiations, directly with the Dauphin. By 8 May the [[Treaty of Brétigny]] had been agreed, which largely replicated the First Treaty of London{{sfn|Rogers|2014|pp=414–416}} or the Treaty of Guînes.{{sfn|Rogers|2014|p=292}} By this treaty vast areas of France were ceded to England, to be personally ruled by the Black Prince, and John was ransomed for three million gold [[écu]].{{sfn|Sumption|1999|pp=135–136, 447}} Rogers states "Edward gained territories comprising a full third of France, to be held in full sovereignty, along with a huge ransom for the captive King John{{snd}}his original war aims and much more."{{sfn|Rogers|1994|p=102}} As well as John, sixteen of the more senior nobles captured at Poitiers were finally released with the sealing of this treaty.{{sfn|Given-Wilson|Bériac|2001|pp=803–804}} At the time it seemed this was the end of the war, but large-scale fighting broke out again in 1369 and the Hundred Years' War did not end until 1453, with a French victory which left only Calais in English hands.{{sfn|Curry|2002|pp=46, 91}}
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