Rouvray-Sainte-Croix () is a commune in the

Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It takes its name from the river Loiret, which is contained wholly within the department. In 2019, Loiret had a population of 680,434.

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in north-central

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. It has long been thought that

Rouvray-Saint-Denis Rouvray-Saint-Denis () is a Communes of France, commune in the Eure-et-Loir Departments of France, department in northern France. History It has long been thought that it was the site of the Battle of the Herrings in 1429, when Sir John Fastolf b ...

was the site of the

Battle of the Herrings The Battle of the Herrings, also called the Battle of Rouvray, was a military action near the town of Rouvray in France, just north of Orléans, which took place on 12 February 1429, during the siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years' War. T ...

in 1429, when Sir John Fastolf beat off an attack on an English convoy taking supplies to the

siege of Orléans The siege of Orléans (12 October 1428 – 8 May 1429) was the watershed of the Hundred Years' War between France and England. The siege took place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war. The city held strategic and ...

; but in his biography of Fastolf, ''The Real Falstaff'', Stephen Cooper argues that the battle is more likely to have taken place at Rouvray-Sainte-Croix.

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