A Less Boring History of the World by Dave Rear

Author:Dave Rear
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781446444849
Publisher: Random House

THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR

After the death of John in 1216, the subsequent kings of England devoted their entire reigns to attempting to ignore the Magna Carta. There were two ways you could do this as a medieval monarch: (1) Invade France so the barons would forget about democratic representation and, hopefully, get impaled on an axe, or (2) Pretend you couldn’t read Latin. Edward III chose the French route.

France had been having quite a bit of history of her own during the past three hundred years, but the most important point was that the French king – who, by law, had to be called either Charles or, preferably, Louis – had no land or money, having blown most of it on full-length suits of armour designed to protect himself from hordes of angry wives and mistresses. The English king, in fact, owned more land in France than the French king, particularly after Henry II’s marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine. This is why the French resorted to dirty, underhand tactics like sneaking back early from the Crusades to take it all back. This, allied to Edward III’s claim that he was actually the rightful king of France owing to the fact that he quite liked garlic bread, was a recipe for war.

1453: A LONE SOLDIER DFEENDS ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING ENGLISH STRONGHOLDS.

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