Conflict: | Battle of Crotoy | ||||||
Partof: | Hundred Years' War (1337–1360) | ||||||
Date: | 25 June 1347 | ||||||
Place: | English Channel, mouth of the Somme river off the Le Crotoy | ||||||
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Result: | English victory | ||||||
Combatant1: | Kingdom of France | ||||||
Combatant2: | Kingdom of England | ||||||
Commander2: | William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke | ||||||
Strength1: | Unknown | ||||||
Strength2: | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties1: | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties2: | Unknown |
The Battle of Crotoy was a naval battle which occurred on 25 June 1347 at the mouth of the Somme off the Le Crotoy, when a French fleet of 40 ships gathered in attempted to relieve Calais, where an English army under the command of King Edward III of England was besieging the French town during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War.
An English fleet commanded by William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton and Laurence Hastings, Earl of Pembroke defeated the French fleet.