#Map of 100 years war series#

The French rejected the claim, maintaining that Isabella could not transmit a right that she did not possess. When Charles IV died in 1328, Isabella, unable to claim the French throne for herself, claimed it for her son. In 1316, a principle was established denying women succession to the French throne. Through his mother, Isabella of France, Edward III of England was the grandson of Philip IV of France and nephew of Charles IV of France, the last king of the senior line of the House of Capet. The confiscation or threat of confiscating this duchy had been part of French policy to check the growth of English power, particularly whenever the English were at war with the Kingdom of Scotland, an ally of France. The French kings had endeavored, over the centuries, to reduce these possessions, to the effect that only Gascony was left to the English. The war marked both the height of chivalry and its subsequent decline, and the development of strong national identities in both countries.ДЄfter the Norman Conquest, the kings of England were vassals of the kings of France for their possessions in France. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages, in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe.

#Map of 100 years war series#

The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession of the French throne.