ABSTRACT
The fourteenth century is associated with one war in particular, the long-drawn-out struggle between England and France known as the Hundred Years War, a term first used in English by Edward Augustus Freeman in 1869. Philip's response was to seize Guienne at a time when Edward was faced with a major revolt in Wales which caused him to call off a planned French campaign, along with war in Scotland. Following the dispute over the Scottish succession after 1290 the Scots had turned to France for help against Edward I. Edward III supported the claim of Edward Baliol, the son of the successful candidate of 1290. The other main theatre of war in western Europe was the Iberian peninsula. Denmark was involved in a struggle for the control of the Baltic and there were wars within Britain, perhaps inspired in part by the ejection of the English from Normandy and Anjou in 1204.
