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  1. Hundred Years' War

    Hundred Years' War, intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th-15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown. By convention it is said to have lasted from 1337 to 1453, but there had been periodic fighting since the 12th century.

  2. The Hundred Years' War: Consequences & Effects

    The Hundred Years' War was fought intermittently between England and France from 1337 to 1453 CE and the conflict had many consequences, both immediate and long-lasting. Besides the obvious death and destruction that many of the battles visited upon soldiers and civilians alike, the war made England virtually bankrupt and left the victorious French Crown in total control of all of France ...

  3. Hundred Years' War

    The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; 1337-1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of England.

  4. Hundred Years' War

    The name the Hundred Years' War has been used by historians since the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England ...

  5. Causes and effects of the Hundred Years' War

    Hundred Years' War, (1337-1453)Intermittent armed conflict between England and France over territorial rights and the issue of succession to the French throne.It began when Edward III invaded Flanders in 1337 in order to assert his claim to the French crown. Edward won a major victory at the Battle of Crécy (1346); after his son Edward the Black Prince managed to capture John II at the ...

  6. Overview of The Hundred Years War

    The Hundred Years' War saw the rise of the longbow and the decline of the mounted knight. Helping to launch the concepts of English and French nationalism, the war also saw the erosion of the feudal system. The principal cause of the Hundred Years' War was a dynastic struggle for the French throne. Following the death of Philip IV and his sons ...

  7. Hundred Years' War

    The Hundred Years ' War (1337-1453) was an intermittent conflict between England and France lasting 116 years. It began principally because King Edward III (r. 1327-1377) and Philip VI (r. 1328-1350) escalated a dispute over feudal rights in Gascony to a battle for the French Crown. The French eventually won and gained control of all of France ...

  8. Hundred Years' War

    Hundred Years' WarSourcesContinual Warfare. During the last two centuries of the Middle Ages, there was almost continual warfare throughout all of Europe. The most famous, and longest, of these conflicts exemplifies all of the various wars of the late medieval period. Known erroneously as the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), it began over disputed Continental lands.

  9. PDF The Hundred Years' War

    The Hundred Years' War. NAME: DATE: e Hundred Years' War Despite the name, The Hundred Years' War wasn . t actually a single war. Rather, it was a series of wars between England and France that. asted from 1337 to 1453. There were many events that l. d to this long conflict. But the main trigger was the fact that the English ruled the ...

  10. Significance of the Hundred Years' War

    Hundred Years' War - Significance of the Hundred Years' War: The Hundred Years' War, begun on the pretext of an English claim to the French throne, was later renewed and perpetuated in an attempt to establish in reality Henry V's grandiose conception of a dual monarchy by which the English king should rule two kingdoms on either side of the Channel.

  11. Hundred Years War

    The Hundred Years War. 2d ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First published in 1993 by Macmillan, this short, chronologically arranged study is intended as an introduction to the subject of the Hundred Years War and the main debates surrounding it. It focuses on the origins of the war and explains the differences between the 14th ...

  12. Hundred Years War Essay

    The Hundred Years War The Hundred Years' War was a war between England and France in which France defended its' crown against British rule. This war had a great impact on the people of each country. The origin of the war goes back to the conquest of William for England. In 1066 William, the Duke of Normandy, led an army into England.

  13. Essays on Hundred Years War

    Hundred Years' War and The Things Brought by It. 2 pages / 685 words. The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453. The war starts off with several successes on Britain's part, and the English forces dominate France for decades.

  14. The Lasting Effects of The Hundred Years War

    From 1337 to 1453, the Hundred Years War was a major conflict waged between the English and the French. The war began over a territory disputes between the English and the French when the French defeated the English in the battle at Castillon, along France to claim English territories (Keen 2014). The major conflict between England and France ...

  15. Hundred Years' War: History

    The social consequences of the war also seem to be poorly addressed. For example, Postan narrates that the process of establishment of wealthy families in the countryside was directly affected by the Hundred Years' War 5. The authors have done an excellent job of describing the events of the war itself but the consequences appear to be left ...

  16. History Of The The Hundred Years War History Essay

    The Hundred Years' war was a series of wars lasting for a little over a hundred years. The war itself was between two royal houses , House of Valois and Plantagenet, who were fighting over the French throne. At the time it had been vacant due to the demise of the Capetian line of French Kings. It all originally started because the House of ...

  17. The Hundred Years War and the 'Creation' of National Identity and the

    The association with nationhood remains today, and it can still be very overt.34 For France in particular, the language of the nation and national identity has been strongly connected with the Hundred Years War.35 It is a little more difficult to propose such a strong link on the basis of the English evidence; nonetheless, 'representations of ...

  18. The Hundred Years War

    The Hundred Years War, caused by the English king's claim to the French throne, a search for national identity and economic rivalry changed forever the emerging nations of England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the beginning of the conflict, the English overpowered the French with better weaponry and a stronger ...

  19. Hundred Years' War

    The Hundred Years' War was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English royal House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois. ... Letters and papers illustrative of the wars of the English in France ...

  20. Joan of Arc

    The Hundred Years' War. The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was a conflict between France and England over the legitimate succession to the French throne. William the Conqueror led the Norman conquest of England in 1066, ruling England from 1066-1087 and establishing a French monarchy. The later kings of England still had estates and interests in France and periodically would make some gesture ...

  21. Essay on The Hundred Years' War

    Wars were also part of the crisis, notably the Hundred Years War between England and France. In 1328 the French Capetian line ended. England's Edward III (d.1377) claimed the French throne, but a cousin to the Capets, Philip of Valois, became king (d.1350).

  22. The Hundred Years War

    The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among ...