The Hundred Years War grew out of these earlier clashes ... but it left him with Gascony as a duchy held under the French crown. The English kings’ ducal rights there continued to be a source ...

📜 History of England: The 100 Years War - At stake on the English side was trade ... and the reputation and honor of the king. On the French side, a unified country, national prestige, and ...

In 1337 King Edward III went to war with French king Philip VI over these territories, the opening act of the Hundred Years’ War. At first, the English armies won significant battles under the ...

Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl who helped lead France to victory, was burned at the stake after being convicted of ...

One is reminded of this exchange reading Jonathan Sumption’s utterly engrossing Triumph and Illusion, which deals with the final 30 years or so of the Hundred Years War ... devastating French raids of ...

Myth: During the Hundred Years War, the French cut off the first and second fingers of any English archers they managed to capture, to stop them from being able to shoot their bows. In response ...