Battle of Bonnegarde

Battle of Bonnegarde
Part of the Gascon War
Date2 February 1297
Location
Bonnegarde, Landes, south-west France
Result French victory
Belligerents
France England
Commanders and leaders
Robert II of Artois Henry de Lacy
Strength
5,000–7,000 6,000–7,000
Casualties and losses
Light 700–1,400

The Battle of Bonnegarde, part of the Gascon War, took place in Bonnegarde in south-west France (in the present-day department of Landes) on 2 February 1297 and pitted a French army under Count Robert II of Artois against an English force commanded by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, resulting in a French victory. This battle, in which the French ambushed and defeated the English army, was the only pitched battle of the war and largely ended the fighting in Guyenne in favor of France.

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