Aftermath
Following Henry VI of England's episode of insanity in 1453, outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, and the evident loss of military ascendancy to the French, the English were no longer in any position to pursue their claim to the French throne. The English Crown lost all its continental possessions except for the channel islands and the city of Calais, which was the last English possession in France. It was finally lost in 1558.
A casualty after the battle of Castillon was Pierre de Montferrand husband of Mary Plantagenet, illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Bedford and a granddaughter of Henry IV of England. Refusing to pay homage to the French king he was subsequently beheaded in Poitiers on 12 July 1453.
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