20 Patards - John of Balagny Siege of Cambrai

John of Balagny — born Jean de Monluc-Balagny, illegitimate son of the soldier-poet Blaise de Monluc — held Cambrai as a French client ruler under increasingly desperate circumstances through the early 1590s. When Spanish forces under Alessandro Farnese tightened the siege in 1595, the city's mint struck emergency bronze coinage simply to keep commerce and troop payments functional inside the walls. Cambrai fell to Spain that same year.