Deep Truce (Sacred Accord)

The Deep Truce (French: Trêve Profonde; Latin: Pactio Profunda) is the name given to the period of time marked by a distinct lack of combat between the Kingdoms of England and France between 1436 and 1456 during the Hundred Years' War. Following the Battle of Gerberoy, a kind of unspoken treaty materialised between the kingdoms as their armies kept to their own territory and avoided any incursions into hostile lands. Despite the absence of hostilities between England and France, France was involved in a number of other conflicts that embroiled many Western European powers known as the Deep Trucial Wars. These wars drew France's attention away from their technically-ongoing war with the English and greatly weakened its ability to fight through perpetual conflict. The first Deep Trucial War was the War of the Hungarian Succession, and the final was the Liégeois War, during which England took advantage of the occupation of the Seine basin by marching into Paris.