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Mar 17, 2020 · The Hundred Years ' War (1337-1453) was an intermittent conflict between England and France lasting 116 years. It began principally because King Edward III (r. 1327-1377) and Philip VI (r. 1328-1350) escalated a dispute over feudal rights in Gascony to a battle for the French Crown. The French eventually won and gained control of all of France ...
Mar 19, 2024 · Philip VI was King of France in the 14th Century. The first of the Valois Kings of France, he was on the throne at the start of the Hundred Years War. His father was Charles of Valois, who had served as a primary advisor to the three previous Kings of France, Louis X, Philip V, Charles IV. When Charles, the last Capetian king, died, in 1328 ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Philip IV (April-June 1268 – November 29, 1314), called the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King of France from 1285 until his death. He was the husband of Joan I of Navarre, by virtue of which he was King of Navarre (as Philip I) and Count of Champagne from 1284 to 1305. Youth.
Nov 13, 2011 · Philip VI of France, known to future generations as “the Fortunate,” was king of France from 1328 to 1350. His reign encompasses one of the most turbulent times in medieval France, more due to extraordinary external influences than to his own failings.
Battle of Crécy. / 50.25639°N 1.88778°E / 50.25639; 1.88778. The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 in northern France between a French army commanded by King Philip VI and an English army led by King Edward III. The French attacked the English while they were traversing northern France during the Hundred Years' War ...
Philip VI (French) (1293 – 22 August 1350), called the Fortunate (French) and of Valois, was the first King of France from the House of Valois. He reigned from 1328 until his death. Philip's reign was dominated by the consequences of a succession dispute. When King Charles IV the Fair died without a male heir in 1328, the nearest male relative was his nephew Edward III of England, who ...
Biography. King of France; son of Charles of Valois, grandson of King Philip III; married Joan of Burgundy (1313) and, after the latter's death, Blanche of Navarre (1350). Became King of France when his cousin Charles IV died without issue (1328), thus becoming the first of the Valois Kings. Succeeded by his son Jean II. 42 related objects. coin.
