ABSTRACT

The Hundred Year's War is the name for the last period in the long struggle of the French kings to expel the English from their French fiefs. For convenience the author's may distinguish three periods in the Hundred Year's War. The workers in the towns also rebelled against the rich gildsmen and employers and the count of Flanders returned. In the confused civil war Artevelde was killed in 1345 and the English soon lost their ascendancy in Flanders. The English and French continued hostilities by supporting opposing sides of a partisan war in Brittany. Then Edward III prepared a great expedition, landed at La Hogue on the coast of Normandy in July, 1346, and for six weeks the English marched through the defenseless country. Before the battle of Poitiers the States General had agreed to the taxes necessary for the war only if they might superintend their collection and inspect their disbursement.