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The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340
The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War 12501340 Author:M. G. A. Vale In this history of Anglo-French relations in the century before the Hundred Years War, the author examines the legacy of continental rule bequeathed by the Angevin Kings of England to their Plantagenet succesors. Drawing on new material from both English and French archives, he explores the sources of Anglo-French tension, some of which stemmed ... more »directly from this continental involvement. Conditions in the Duchy of Aquitaine, homage owed by the Plantagenets to the Kings of France, a tradition of private war among the Gascon nobility and Edward I's war with France are all examined. The breakdown of feudal and diplomatic relations between the two powers in 1340 was a breach with the past, and the subsequent emergence of clearer "national" and cultural distinctions can be viewed as a consequence of that rupture.« less