About: John Creswey     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/c/8LeK394hJB

John Creswey, was a mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War and was an Englishman. At the end of hostilities during the Hundred Years War Creswey and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called Tard-Venus bands of bandits, that ranged the French country side pillaging towns. Leading to Avignon, Pope Innocent VI preaching a crusade against the robbers. His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • John Creswey (en)
rdfs:comment
  • John Creswey, was a mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War and was an Englishman. At the end of hostilities during the Hundred Years War Creswey and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called Tard-Venus bands of bandits, that ranged the French country side pillaging towns. Leading to Avignon, Pope Innocent VI preaching a crusade against the robbers. His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sack_of_the_town.jpg
dct:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
has abstract
  • John Creswey, was a mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War and was an Englishman. At the end of hostilities during the Hundred Years War Creswey and his men found themselves unemployed and so become one of the 30 so-called Tard-Venus bands of bandits, that ranged the French country side pillaging towns. Leading to Avignon, Pope Innocent VI preaching a crusade against the robbers. His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart After pillaging the counties of Macon, Lyon and Forez through the season of Lent, mid, year Creswey joined Naudon de Bageran, Francois Hennequin, , Robert Briquet, and Camus bour, and marched on the wealthy and largely undefended papal city of Avignon to make ransom of the Pope and cardinals. But on 3 June 1362, this army was cut to pieces by 400 Spaniard and Castilians soldiers under the orders of Henry of Trastamara (King of Castile and León) at Montpensier. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is Wikipage redirect of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git147 as of Sep 06 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3331 as of Sep 2 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 67 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software