History Trivia - Battle of Ballon - Charles the Bald defeated

November 22

845 the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeated the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 

1307 Pope Clement V issued the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

1428 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and also known as known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was born. 

History Trivia - Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester

October 30

 852 Swithun, counselor to Kings Egbert and Aethelwulf, became Bishop of Winchester. 

1270 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

 1470 Henry VI of England returned to the English throne after the Earl of Warwick defeated the Yorkists in battle.