The Hundred Years War

         The Hundred Years War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; English: Hundred Years' War) was an armed conflict that lasted 116 years (January 1, 1337 - October 17 de 1453) 5 6 7 8 between kingdoms of France and England. This war was feudal roots, since its purpose was simply to resolve who would control the vast possessions of the English monarchs in French territories since 1154, due to the accession of Henry II Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, to the English throne. Had international implications and finally, after many vicissitudes, ended with the British withdrawal from French soil.




       The rivalry between France and England came from the time of the Battle of Hastings (1066), when the victory of Duke William of Normandy allowed him to take over England. Now the Normans were kings of a great nation and require the French king be treated as such, but the point of view of France was not the same: the Duchy of Normandy had always been a vassal, and the fact that the Normans had risen to throne of England did not have to change the traditional submission of the duchy to the crown of Paris

  
A mid-twelfth century, the Norman dukes were replaced by the Anjou dynasty, powerful Counts who owned large territories in the west and southwest France. The Angevin English king Henry II was more powerful than his supposed master the king of France fact that ruled a far richer and productive empire. In their struggle to limit the power of the British sovereign, King Philip Augustus of France supported the rebellion of one of the sons of Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, who succeeded him on the throne in 1189