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1242 CE, July 22

King Louis IX of France defeats Henry III of England at the two day battle of Taillebourg on July 21-22, 1242. It was the decisive engagement of the Saintonge War; a feudal dynastic conflict between Capetian forces supportive of King Louis IX's brother Alphonse, Count of Poitiers and those of Hugh X of Lusignan, Raymond VII of Toulouse and Henry III of England.

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