HI123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: English Army, Plate Armour, War Hammer
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England and france in the hundred years" war. And they only held aquitaine on condition that the. British king pay homage to the french king and became a vassal to the king. The english kings always wanted to take back their. French lands: the effective line of french kings ended in 1327, with the death of king charles the iv, and with no heirs, the next in line would have been the english king edward the third. But instead french nobles chose a cousin of the late. King charles , named philip of valois, and they chose him even though he had the weaker claim to the throne because: Did not threaten the power of the nobles. He reigned from 1328 1350 as king philip vi. In the middle ages, kings raised armies by calling up their vassals for compulsory military service.
