An important port in Picardy, on the French side of the straight of Dover, an English possession from 1347 to 1558 after Edward III took the town in August 1347. At the end of an eleven month
siege , the town capitulated, on the condition that six prominent men be presented to him barefoot, bearing the town's keys. According to
Froissart , Queen Philippa intervened, pleading for their lives. Geoffrey de Charnay, a highly regarded French
knight , attempted to release the town through bribery in 13__, but was met in person by Edward and the Black Prince. Geoffrey was then captured, returned to England were he served as a captive until ____. In 1362 Edward transferred the wool staple to Calais, making the town the English main port for English wool experts on the continent. 
