HI123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plate Armour, Sallet, Knightly Sword
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England and france in the hundred year"s war: the sources of the conflict. When charles the 5th died 1327, edward the 3rd had the strongest claim to the french throne. French didn"t want edward on the throne. The french nobles chose phillip of valois as their new king, despite his weaker claim to the throne. He was browned as king phillip the 6th and reigned from 1328 until his death in 1350. For much of the middle ages, kings depended on feudal bonds of obligation to create armies military service. When they went to war, they called up their vassals for compulsory. Vassals joined the king"s army and served him for a specified length of. This is how armies were raised during the medieval period. The indenture was a binding agreement that formalized conditions of time, usually forty days per year service between the king ( as employer) and his captain (usually members of the nobility)
