The Hundred Years War

The Hundred Years' War is a common name given to the series of armed conflicts, broken by a number of truces and peace treaties, that were waged from 1337 to 1453 between the two great European powers at that time, England and France. An immediate pretext for war was the claim of the kings of England to the French throne. Edward III of England, a Plantagenet, claimed that he was the legal heir to the French throne through his mother, Isabella, sister to King Charles IV of France, who had died in 1328.