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Battle of Guinegate

Name: Battle of Guinegate
Start: 1479-08-07
Location: Enguinegatte, France

Battle of Guinegate was a battle fought on 7 August 1479 at Enguinegatte, in what is now France. It was part of the War of the Burgundian Succession, which ran from 1477 to 1482. The recorded result: Burgundian victory.

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Fought7 August 1479

WhereEnguinegatte, France50.608N, 2.271E

OutcomeBurgundian victory

BelligerentsValoisagainstBurgundian State

Part ofWar of the Burgundian Succession1477 to 1482

Record

Date	7 August 1479
Place	Enguinegatte, France 50.608N, 2.271E
Kind	Battle, medieval
Strength	16,000 (not counting cannoneers)–c. 20,000 men in total; 4,000 (2,000 heavy cavalry and 2,000 light cavalry)–10,800 cavalry; 8,000 regular archers; 12,000 infantry (including archers; mounted archers also fought on foot)	16,000– 23,000 men in total; 1,650 (825 heavy cavalry plus 825 light cavalry)–4,950 cavalry (including mounted archers); 300 English archers plus 3,000 archers, crossbowmen, arquebusiers and coleuvriniers.; 11,000 pikemen; or 11,000 foot soldiers with close-combat weapons
Commanders	Philippe de Crèvecœur d'Esquerdes	Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Engelbert II of Nassau Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Guinegate 1513, 4.5 km SW
Siege of Aire-sur-la-Lys 1710, 9.6 km E
Battle of Arques 1303, 14 km N
Siege of Saint-Omer 1638, 15 km N
Battle of Saint-Omer 1340, 15 km N

In the same war

Before: Siege of Gray 4 October 1477

Elsewhere in 1479

Battle of Guinegate is one of 720 engagements of the 15th century in the atlas and one of 1,383 in present-day France.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1456533, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Guinegate (1479), revision 1370442284, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.