PARIS, TREATY OF


Meaning of PARIS, TREATY OF in English

(1259) Peace treaty signed by Henry III of England and Louis IX of France.

It allowed the English to keep Aquitaine and nearby territories but obliged Henry to acknowledge himself the vassal of the French king. The agreement kept peace between England and France until the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War in 1337.

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