It was during this march that the Duke of Normandy's envoys overtook him with proposals of peace.

The misery of the land had at last bent Charles to submission, and in May a treaty was concluded at Bretigny, a small place to the eastward of Chartres.

By this treaty the English king waived his claims on the crown of France and on the Duchy of Normandy.

On the other hand, his Duchy of Aquitaine, which included Gascony, Guienne, Poitou, and Saintonge, the Limousin and the Angoumois, Perigord and the counties of Bigorre and Rouergue, was not only restored but freed from its obligations as a French fief and granted in full sovereignty with Ponthieu, Edward's heritage from the second wife of Edward the First, as well as with Guisnes and his new conquest of Calais.
[Sidenote: Misery of England] The Peace of Bretigny set its seal upon Edward's glory.

But within England itself the misery of the people was deepening every hour.