A town where Philip VI of France died in 1350.
Nogent-le-Roi in the Eure-et-Loir was a royal estate and small town in the contested landscape between the Capetian royal domain and Normandy. Philip VI of France died there in 1350.
Philip VI's death at Nogent-le-Roi closed the first Valois reign — a period defined by the disputed succession that started the Hundred Years' War, the English victories at Crécy and Calais, and the arrival of the Black Death in 1348. He left John II a kingdom strained by military defeat, financial pressure, and demographic catastrophe.