Events from the year 1448 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles VII
Events
January 15 – Le Mans is not returned to the French by January 15, 1448, as outlined in the Treaty of Tours, resulting in the French army surrounding the city. December 22 – Henry VI cede the lands of Maine and Anjou under threat of military force from Charles VII following refusal to fulfil the terms of the Treaty of Tours.
Date unknown Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset is appointed as commander in occupied France replacing Richard, Duke of York. A gathering of the Estates General, a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects was called by Charles VII at Bourges.
Births
July 7 – Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1473)
Date unknown
Gaston de Foix, Earl of Kendal and Count of Candale and Benauges (d. 1500)
Deaths
March 18 – Catherine Quicquat, woman executed for witchcraft.Martine Osterero, Faire croire, faire peur : diabolisation de la sorcellerie et construction de l'altérité au Moyen Âge , Revue suisse sur les didactiques de l'histoire, 2012 July 7 – Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Calabria (b. 1428)
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