John the Good, king of France from 1350 to 1364, succeeded his father Philip VI.; at the battle of Poitiers he was captured and carried to England; four years later he was allowed to return on leaving his son as hostage; the hostage made his escape; John chivalrously came back to London, and died in captivity (1319‒1364).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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