24.3 Battle of Bouvines 1214, Part 3, Decisive Battle in Medieval France

A powerful league unites against Philip II Augustus of France, including King John of England, Emperor Otto IV, and numerous counts of France. Historians are pretty unanimous, that this was a decisive battle which helped shape western Europe.

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Picture: A detail of one of the stained-glass windows installed in the parish church of Bouvines in 1914

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