Sieges of Boulogne (1544–1546)

Sieges of Boulogne (1544–1546)
Part of the Rough Wooing and the Italian War of 1542–1546

Eighteenth-Century engraving reproduction of a lost Sixteenth-Century engraving showing the siege of Boulogne
Date
First siege of Boulogne:
  • 19 July – 14 September 1544

Second siege of Boulogne:

  • September 1544 - 16 May 1550
Location
Boulogne, on the French coast of the English Channel
50°43′35″N 1°36′53″E / 50.7264°N 1.6147°E / 50.7264; 1.6147
Result
  • 1544: English victory
  • 1544-1550: English victory
Belligerents
  • 1544:

Kingdom of England
  • 1544:

France
Commanders and leaders
  • 1544:

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
  • 1544:

Jacques de Coucy, Seigneur de Vervins
Strength
  • 1544:

40,000 men

  • 1544-1550:

4,000

  • 1544:

Around 2,000

  • 1544-1550:

Varied

The first siege of Boulogne took place from 19 July to 14 September 1544 and the second siege of Boulogne took place in October 1544.

An earlier siege of Boulogne had taken place in 1492 when the English Tudor King Henry VII laid siege to the lightly defended lower town of Boulogne in the Pas-de-Calais, France. Fifty years later as allies of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, during the war against the French, the English returned led by Henry VII's son and heir, Henry VIII. Boulogne was fortified and defended as an English possession on the French mainland between 14 September 1544 and March 1550.

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