Stage 12
Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot
11 July 2024
204 km
ON THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY
Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302)
A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army. 19th-centurian Flemish writer, Hendrik Conscience worte a novel about the events with the title "The Lion of Flanders".
George, Duke of Clarence marries Isabel Neville, the older daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, "the Kingmaker". (1469)
The couple had two children:
Margaret (1473), later Countess of Salisbury, was executed at the age of 78 in 1541.
Edward (1475), spent almost his entire life in the Tower, was executed in 1499.
Birth of Margaret "Peggy" Shippen, the second wife of Benedict Arnold (1760)