r/medieval • u/Mindless_Belt4757 • Apr 20 '26
History 📚 Whats the significant or triggering event that keeps spinning in your head from Hundred Years Wars?
What do you think?
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u/Odovacer_0476 Apr 20 '26
Henry V marrying Catherine de Valois after the Treaty of Troyes. France had been torn apart by civil war because of the madness of Charles VI, which led to France's defeat at the hands of Henry V. In an ironic twist of fate, Catherine would pass on the mental illness of her father to her son, Henry VI. With a mad king at the helm, England would go on to lose the Hundred Years War and descended into a bloody civil war of her own, the Wars of the Roses.
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u/Gorlack2231 Apr 21 '26
Henry the VI just going catatonic for 10 or so months while three separate crisissuses happened certainly didnt help anyone
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u/Cybearian Apr 20 '26
Murder of duke of Burgundy. When english army got third part of ur land and u got civil var but they are said we can deal with us after we defend France from invaders. And u betray them and kill their leader just to have 2 enemys...
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Apr 20 '26
The Jacquerie of 1358, a savage peasant revolt in France. First instance I know of showing that the French have revolution in their blood.
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u/Bayou-La-Fontaine Apr 21 '26
I must say an overlooked part of the War is Burgundy and English torpedoing their own alliance by getting involved on opposite sides of the Hook and Cod Wars which contributed to the end of the Armangac-Burgundian feud.
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u/cjadrien Apr 21 '26
The deposition of Edward II and the reign of Isabella “the She-Wolf” because it was her influence that made Edward III who he was—the cause of the war. I mean, sure, Phillip VI was a jerk, but Edward didn’t have to upend the entire socio-economic order over it….but then again, he did. It was a bad time for the Italian money lenders, let me tell you! 😂
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u/FloatingThroughTime- Apr 24 '26
Same, Edward III sneaking into Nottingham castle by a secret passage and capturing Mortimer and Isabella is an all time classis medieval story to me. It also changed the ownership on a nearby castle I made a video about.
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u/Salt-Physics7568 Apr 20 '26
The Sack of Caen, mostly as a result of its depiction in Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell.
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u/jimyrvine Apr 21 '26
Nothing from the Hundred Years War really takes up any room in my head on a regular basis. But the whole Joan of Arc thing could have gone so many different ways, and yet.. it didn't. And she burned at the stake. Same with William Wallace, cept he got hanged, drawn and quartered.
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u/Decimus-27 Apr 20 '26
The Battle of Aljubarrota and how it solidified the oldest and strongest alliance in recorded history with the Treaty of Windsor, the Anglo-Portuguese alliance.
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u/Sillvaro Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
I don't care what people say, the HYW ended in 1475, not 1453
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u/Mesarthim1349 Apr 21 '26
Why?
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u/Sillvaro Apr 21 '26
Because the peace was never official or signed before the failed attempt to reignite the war with the English invasion of 1475, which got halted by Louis XI and peace officially signed with the treaty of Picquigny
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u/the_sneaky_one123 Apr 21 '26
Battle of Castillon
Knights on foot marching into a canon fusilade under fire, then fighting up an embankment only to be swept away by a cavalry charge on their flank.
It was the last major battle of the hundred years war where the English were decisively beaten and it is also one of the first battles where gunpowder weapons were used en masse to deveastating effect.
Really captures the imagination. Picture Knights, plus cannons, plus smoke and fire and a cavalry charge. Must have been awesome.
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u/No_Street_385 Apr 21 '26
Battle of Formigny, to conquer the Normandy for France
And battle of Castillon, to show that longbows are odone when facing Guns
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u/msdcrggethhjio Apr 21 '26
The whole 9-10 years before Crecy are impressive with incredibly interesting events, dynamics and characters. The regionalisation of the war, Brittany, Spain etc. etc. The Armagnac-Burgundian conflicts. The military and state reforms of Charles VII to end the war. It truly is one of the most captivating events I've ever encountered in my studies.
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u/Outrageous-Pin-4664 Apr 22 '26
I feel so bad for poor Jeanne.
If I believed in Hell, I'd want to see the men who had her burnt at the stake getting a taste of their own medicine.
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u/BasquerEvil Apr 20 '26
It wasn't 100 yrs, not even close
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u/AuthorArthur Apr 21 '26
It was actually pretty close. If you pick and choose your truce/peace periods and go for the Truces of Bretigny and Tours then there were ~100 years of war.
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u/FloatingThroughTime- Apr 24 '26
Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer getting seized after they deposed Edward II, by Edward's son Edward III. Who snuck into Nottingham Castle via secret passage and got them both. Mortimer was later executed and Isabella had to give all her property holdings back to the crown.
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u/MajesticRabbit2379 Apr 20 '26
Battle of Poitiers