History: Hundred Years War

1337- 1461

- Growing tensions between the King of England, Edward III, and Philip VI of France resulted in a Hundred Years' War. Edward III was duke of Gascony, which meant he must swear allegiance as a vassal of the King of France, however, tensions between the two and political disagreements over the fate of the territory of Gascony caused Edward to refuse allegiance and declare war on Phillip. The disputes waged on and off for more than one hundred years, until Joan of Arc intervened. Charles the dauphin, heir to the French Throne, was established as monarch in 1429 and though the war waged on for two more decades, the tone for the conflict had been established and England was forced out of French territory by 1461.