Shortly after relieving the siege at Orléans, French forces recaptured the neighboring district along the Loire river.

Beaugency was a small town on the northern bank of the Loire river in central France.

Conquered by the English a few years earlier as a staging point for a planned invasion of southern France, the French attack recaptured the bridge and the town, providing a vital supply conduit for the summer offensive in the north and the coronation of King Charles VII of France.

Constable Arthur de Richemont, who had been in disgrace at court for two years, appeared with a force of 1000 men and offered his services.

Breaking with the then-prevalent form of siege warfare, the French army followed the capture of the bridge at Meung-sur-Loire on the 15 June, not with an attack on that town or its castle but with an assault on neighbouring Beaugency the next day.