the Hundred Years War

The Hundred Years War, expression emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, identifying a series of armed conflicts recorded intermittently, during the fourteenth century and the fifteenth century (1337 - 1453), with the participation of France and England. The long duration of this conflict by the great might of the English on one side and the stubborn French resistance on the other explains. This was the first great European war which caused profound changes in the economic, social and political life of Western Europe. The kingdom of France was supported by the kingdoms of Scotland, Bohemia, Castilla and the papacy of Avignon. England had been allied with Flanders, German kingdoms and Portugal. The dynastic question which unleashed the War of the Hundred Years surpassed the feudal character of military political rivalries of the Middle Ages and frame the content of future confrontations enters the great European monarchies. The War of the Hundred Years Hard 116 years (although there were long periods of ceasefire, truce and peace for economic reasons, politicians and the bubonic plague that occurred in those years)

- Causes of the Hundred Years War (1337 - 1453) -

a) The possession of vast regions of France by the English crown, which forced France to unify the territory and destroy feudalism, expelling the English.
b) England needed his continental dominions that provided resources for its economy.
c) Claims of the kings of England to the crown of France, due to complex entroques family of the time.

- Hundred Years War: You can see four periods: -

1. First Period: The start ingles.- victory was claimed Guyenne when Philip VI (1337) and Edward III of England claimed the French crown. This stage concluded after a bloody war with the Peace of Bretigny (1360), under which Edward III renounces the French crown to change the properties of Calais and the territories south of the River Loire.

2. Second Period: The Triumph Frances.- Carlos V, after ensuring internal peace of France, beginning the war against the English, managing to recover almost all the territories ceded in the Peace of Bretigny.

3. Third Period: The Triumph ingles.- Henry V of England restart hostilities against Charles VI of France, whom I defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Troyes (1420), for which recognized as heir to the French throne Henry V, who had become his son, having contracted this marriage to Catherine, daughter of the French king.

4. Fourth Period: Joan of Arco.- Within two years of the Treaty of Troyes, the signatories were dead kings. The crown of France and England recaayo in Henry VI, one year old, son of Princess Catherine (daughter of the king of France) and Henry V of England.