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The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Dutch: Guldensporenslag; French: Bataille des éperons d'or) or 1302 Battle of Courtrai was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the 1297–1305 Franco-Flemish War.
Battle of the Golden Spurs, (July 11, 1302), military engagement on the outskirts of Kortrijk in Flanders (now in Belgium) in which an untrained Flemish infantry militia, consisting mainly of members of the craft guilds (notably that of the weavers) defeated a professional force of French and patrician Flemish cavalry, thus checking the growth ...
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Jul 7, 2002 · Richard Cavendish describes how The Battle of the Golden Spurs, known also as the Battle of Courtrai was fought on July 11, 1302, near Kortijk in Flanders. Hundreds of pairs of golden spurs were found on the bodies of dead knights on the battlefield and hung up in triumph in the abbey church of Courtrai, whose townspeople had inflicted a ...
The Battle of the Golden Spurs, 1302. On July 11, 1302, the townsmen of Courtrai and other Flemish rebels defeated a French army outside the walls of their city, in what is considered one of the most important battles in the Middle Ages.
Aug 26, 2021 · On 11 July, an untrained Flemish infantry militia defeated a professional force of French cavalry during the Battle of Golden Spurs in Kortrijk, Flanders. This unexpected victory led to a generation of political ascendancy of the guilds in the urban centres and ended the threat of French annexation .
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Jan 24, 2016 · The Flemish collected 500 golden spurs from the dead indicating a large amount of wealthy elite they dispatched. These spurs were sent to be displayed at a local church. The victory was an early foreshadowing of the fall of knightly supremacy.
The Battle of the Golden Spurs occurred in 1302, pitting a peasant army against a French army of noble knights. The Flemish rebels employed innovative tactic...
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