Person1312 – 1377
Edward III
King of England from 1327 to 1377 who claimed the French throne, began the Hundred Years’ War and won at Crécy
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The war fought from 1337 to 1453 between England and France over the French crown and the lands of Flanders and Guyenne. France won, and England withdrew from the Continent, keeping only Calais.
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On 26 August 1346 the English army of Edward III, led by its longbowmen, routed the French knights.
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing