JOHN

n.

French Jean known as John the Good

born April 16, 1319, near Le Mans, Fr.e

died April 8, 1364, London, Eng.

King of France (1350–64).

At odds with England and Navarre, he tried to make peace with the Navarrese king Charles II , then had him imprisoned in 1356. Edward the Black Prince , son of Edward III of England, led an invasion of southern France, defeating and capturing John at the Battle of Poitiers (1356). John was forced to sign the treaties of Brétigny and Calais (1360), which fixed an extravagant ransom and surrendered most of southwestern France to the English. See also Hundred Years' War .