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By Robin Neillands

The Hundred Years struggle is a full of life survey, re-creating the power of this turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years conflict was once the longest battle in eu background, a warfare which introduced primary swap in medieval societies, and ushered within the Renaissance.The tale of the clash, its factors, battles, political struggles and results are instructed with color and element. This revised version brings the scholarship at the clash brand new and provides a brand new postscript analyzing the armies of the period.

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It may also have escaped their notice that Prince Edward was a much harder man than his father. It was now necessary for Edward, Prince of Wales, to visit France and do homage for his duchy and county, and there he duly went in 1325, accompanied by his mother, the Queen, who was herself a French princess, daughter of Philippe IV. At the court of France, Queen Isabelle renewed her adulterous relationship with the exiled Marcher Lord, Roger Mortimer. When Edward II wrote asking her and the Prince to return, she refused.

Of course this was impossible, and the Scots, first under 27 THE HOMAGE OF AQUITAINE 1154–1327 William Wallace and then under Robert Bruce, fought the English until the independence of Scotland was recognized by Edward III in 1328. * * * When the fourteenth century opened, the situation in Aquitaine was as follows: the duchy was a fief of the King of France but held by his cousin the King of England by ‘simple homage’, which limited the fealty to the Duke of Aquitaine not to the King of England, although they were the same person.

20 THE HOMAGE OF AQUITAINE 1154–1327 In 1248, Louis went on Crusade, sailing for Egypt from his newly built port at Aigues-Mortes in the Rhône delta, and then almost at once he met with disaster. His army was bloodily defeated at Mansourah, and it cost the French people a fortune to pay his ransom and get him back. Louis returned from Palestine in 1254, and began the period of his life that was to bring him lasting renown and eventual canonization. St Louis was a law-giver and a lover of justice.

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