Philip VI (King of France from 1328 to 1350) fought Nicolaas Zannekin, a wealthy farmer from Lampernisse.

Residents of the bailiwicks of Veurne, Bergues, Bailleul, Cassel, Poperinge and Bourbourg united and refused to pay.

On 6 April 1327, at the request of Charles IV, Pope John XXII of Avignon renewed an interdict which denied those in Flanders, other than the aristocracy and the clergy the sacraments of the church and a sacred burial.

Jacob Peyt, a leader of the Flemish rebels in Hondschote, tried to capture Laing and pressure the clergy to ignore the edict.

Phillipa was the daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut of Avesnes and Holland, who was an ally of Charles IV.

Willem de Deken, Mayor of Bruges, an ally of the Flemish rebels, hoped the marriage of Phillipa and Edward III would assuage the English King in his dealings with Flanders.

Even though Edward III was troubled with a Scottish rebellion at the time and still held a desire to claim the French throne he was reconciled with Phillip VI and did not lend his support.

[2] Louis I gained the upper hand against the Flemish rebels when the Bishop of Paris signed a document to the effect that anyone causing unrest would be beaten and their property confiscated with half the proceeds going to the Treasury of France.

In 1328, the Count of Flanders requested assistance from his new lord Philip VI at the latter's coronation ceremony in June.

Ghent then attacked Bruges, immobilising a large part of the insurrection forces to defend the city.

Counting on forcing the enemy to fight him on an open field and on terrain favourable to his cavalry, the king entrusted the marshals with the organisation of a chevauchée.

The memory of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302, where the Flemish pikemen decimated the French chivalry, was still fresh.

Disdaining their low-born adversaries, the king's knights removed their armour and the French troops went to relax in their camp.

The king, in a blue jupon embroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis and wearing only a leather coif, regrouped his knights and personally led a counter-attack.