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  • Despenser's Crusade
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  • Popular at the time the lower and middle classes, Despenser's Crusade "was only widely criticised in hindsight", and "for all its canonical propriety, [it] was the Hundred Years' War thinly disguised". Among contemporary critics of the crusade, besides John Wyclif, was the French chronicler Jean Froissart, who charged its leaders with hypocrisy.
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Partof
  • Hundred Years War, Crusades
Date
  • --12-21
Commander
  • 15
Caption
  • Map of France in 1382, showing English conquests in pink and English allies in yellow, including Flanders .
Result
  • English withdrawal
combatant
  • 15
Place
  • Western Flanders
Conflict
  • Despenser's Crusade
abstract
  • Popular at the time the lower and middle classes, Despenser's Crusade "was only widely criticised in hindsight", and "for all its canonical propriety, [it] was the Hundred Years' War thinly disguised". Among contemporary critics of the crusade, besides John Wyclif, was the French chronicler Jean Froissart, who charged its leaders with hypocrisy.