Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus

Hundred Years struggle: a much broader concentration КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Издательство: Brill educational PublishersСерия: historical past of conflict quantity 25Автор(ы): L.J. Andrew Villalon, Donald J. KagayЯзык: EnglishГод издания: 2005Количество страниц: 578ISBN: 90-04-13969-9Формат: pdf (e-book)Размер: 5,28 mb RAPIDили IFOLDER eighty five

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The victory at Auray strengthened England’s hold on western France and rendered regular seaborne contact with Aquitaine far more certain. This and the concurrent end of a conflict between France and Navarre over the duchy of Normandy also led to the 21 Kenneth Fowler, Medieval Mercenaries, 1 vol. to date (Oxford, 2001), 24–43. The classic treatment of the reign is R. Delachenal, Histoire de Charles V, 5 vols. (Paris 1909–1931). 23 A valuable aid to understanding the Breton question is Michael Jones, Ducal Brittany 1364–1399: Relations with England and France during the Reign of Duke John IV (Oxford, 1970).

34 Desmond Seward, Henry V as Warlord (London, 1987), 111–43. 35 Lewis, Later Medieval France, 40–41. 36 Seward, Henry V, 143–46; Cuttino, English Medieval Diplomacy, 19–24. xl introduction In 1422, Charles VI died. Unfortunately for the English, the near simultaneous death of Henry V threw the whole issue back into question. Once again, France became a divided realm ruled by competing monarchs: In the north, the English duke of Bedford, with support from the house of Burgundy, governed in the name of his nephew, Henry VI; in the south, the Armagnac faction acknowledged Charles VII as king, even though he had neither been crowned nor consecrated at Rheims, the coronation site of medieval French kings.

Another English Floodtide (1415–1429) The second period of English victory began in 1415, when Henry V, the third royal to prove himself a great general (all were English), landed in France with the intention of resurrecting his dynasty’s claim on the throne. He would be greatly aided in this endeavor by the enduring Armagnac-Burgundian split. Having besieged and captured the Norman port of Harfleur, his army marched toward Calais. 34 At about the same time, his ally, John the Fearless, occupied Paris.

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