Battle of Tournai

Battle of Bouvines
Part of the Anglo-French War (1213–14)
La Bataille de Bouvines, by Horace Vernet. (Galerie des Batailles, Palace of Versailles). The white Arabian horse and Moorish attendant (right) of Philippe Auguste at the Battle of Bouvines can be seen in this 19th-century painting.
Date 27 July 1214 Location Bouvines, County of Flanders, Kingdom of France Result Decisive French victory
Belligerents
France	Holy Roman Empire Flanders England Boulogne
Commanders and leaders
Philip II, King of France Robert II, Count of Dreux Philip of Dreux Eudes III of Burgundy William II of Ponthieu	Emperor Otto IV William de Longespee  (POW) Renaud of Boulogne  (POW) Ferrand of Flanders  (POW) Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine  (POW) Henry I, Duke of Brabant
Strength
6,000–8,000 1,200–1,400 knights 200–300 light cavalry 5,000–6,000 infantry	9,000 1,300–1,500 knights 7,500 infantry
Casualties and losses
Unknown	169 knights killed 131 knights captured

6,000–8,000

9,000

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle which ended the 1202–1214 Anglo-French War. It was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor in the north. Allied with Philip was Frederick II Hohenstaufen, who controlled the southern Holy Roman Empire and afterwards deposed Otto. Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne. Ferrand and Renaud were captured and imprisoned and King John of England was forced to agree to the Magna Carta by his discontented barons. Philip was himself able to take undisputed control of most of the territories in France that had belonged to King John of England, Otto's maternal uncle and ally.

In 1214, Ferdinand, Infante of Portugal, and Count of Flanders desired the return of the cities of Aire-sur-la-Lys and Saint-Omer, which he had recently lost to Philip II, King of France in the Treaty of Pont-à-Vendin. He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition including Emperor Otto IV, King John I of England, Duke Henry I of Brabant, Count William I of Holland, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, and Duke Henry III of Limburg.

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