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The world we live in was shaped by war.

For hundreds of years, power -hungry
families fought for the right to rule,

and Europe transformed.

For the glory of England!

I, Philip de Valois, am the only king of
France.

These rivalries shifted borders.

Curse be the French king!

...destroyed cities and brought
populations to their knees.

A war of thrones. Don't touch me! A tale
of murder, sex, and betrayal.

Greatness, madam, that is what France
needs.

Those not crowned in glory were brutally
slaughtered or condemned to rot in the

shadows.

The heretic must perish in the flames.

Guards! Guards!

In the merciless game of war and
ambition, anything goes.

In the 14th century, Philip VI, King of
France, saw a great new rival emerge.

the Plantagenet king of England, Edward
III.

He intended to seize the crown from his
Valois cousin.

Forward, charge!

The rivalry between the two monarchs and
their lust for power was to break the

bond between France and England for
generations.

It started the longest and bloodiest war
in European history.

This became known as the Hundred Years'
War.

On February the 1st, 1328, the 34 -year
-old Capetian king of France, Charles

IV, lay dying.

Charles had failed to produce a son and
heir, so on his death, the throne of

France would be up for grabs.

Power -hungry rivals started to circle.

The Capetian dynasty's only hope lay in
the belly of the French king's third

wife, Jeanne d 'Evreux.

She was seven months pregnant.

Charles prayed that Jeanne would give
him a son.

But until then, he entrusted his first
cousin, Philip de Valois, as regent.

Philip was thirty -five years old, a
tall and handsome knight with a

for courage both in tournament and on
the battlefield.

If the queen gave birth to a son, that
child would become king.

But if it was a girl, Then Philip would
become the first Valois king of France.

In the spring of 1328, the queen went
into labor.

Breathe, breathe,

breathe. The whole court held their
breath.

At 10 a .m. on April 1st, the much
-awaited baby was born.

It was a girl. They christened her
Blanche.

Philip de Valois was immediately
summoned to Paris and officially

Philip VI, King of France.

Stand up, my lord.

Philip now reigned over 16 million
subjects.

and the largest kingdom in Europe.

It was the end of the Capetian dynasty
and the start of the Valois.

To you, my people, I promise three
things.

To keep the peace, to stop all
pillaging, and to judge fairly.

While Philip VI was enjoying his moment
of glory, in England, events were

unfolding. that would have a dramatic
effect on the new King of France.

For three years, Isabel, the Queen of
England, and her lover, Roger Mortimer,

Earl of March, had ruled England.

Isabel had overthrown her husband,
Edward II, and crowned her son, Edward

King. But Mortimer was really in charge.

That changed one dark night in October
1330.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Edward. Edward hated his mother's lover.

He was a cruel and vengeful usurper. He
had ordered the murder of Edward's

father and was also responsible for the
death of his brother.

Edward wanted revenge.

Take him.

No! No!

Isabel was an accomplice to all her
lover's crimes, but Edward showed her

and let her live.

Mortimer wasn't so fortunate.

On November 30, 1330, he was executed in
the most humiliating way.

Not beheaded, as was usual for a
nobility, but hanged like a commoner.

Edward III was now the undisputed
sovereign of England.

But he wanted more.

The 18 -year -old king had his sights
set on the crown of France as well.

Edward's ambition was founded on the
fact that his mother, Isabel, was a

of the French royal family.

She was the sister of the late Capetian
king Charles IV.

Like him, she was a descendant of the
illustrious king St. Louis IX.

So Philip VI, the Valois king of France,
was her first cousin.

But Philip was a member of a younger
branch of the Capetian dynasty.

Isabelle was a direct descendant.

When Isabelle's brother died in 1328,
she sent two English diplomats to Paris

demand that the French crown be handed
over to her.

But the assembly refused.

It had long been believed that Isabelle
wasn't allowed to inherit the French

crown because of the Salic law.

This law barred inheritance by women in
favor of a firstborn male. But no one

knew of the law's existence at the time.

and it wasn't invoked until much later.

The decision to proclaim Philip de
Valois king was probably based on

Philip was a member of the royal court,
and everyone knew him.

Isabelle was a foreigner, and she was
hated in court.

Edward thought this was an injustice,
and he was determined to put it right,

especially as the many territories he
already held in France were no longer

sufficient.

Since the 12th century, English kings
had held many valuable territories in

very heart of France, the county of
Pontieu in the north and the duchy of

Aquitaine in the southwest.

But the kings of England governed these
territories merely as dukes and not as

monarchs.

So when it came to swearing loyalty to
Philip, the new king of France, Edward

refused.

He would recognize him as a lord, but
not as his sovereign.

Philip was incensed by Edward's
disrespect.

As payback, in 1337 he decided to seize
Aquitaine.

Philip VI was a great military leader.

Enter.

He led one of the strongest and most
aggressive armies on the continent.

We have enough mentors around them.

I want them posted here and here.

On the other side, England was a
depopulated island with a disastrous

reputation. The English are weak.
Victory is ours. Give the order.

Yes, sir.

For years, the English had been fighting
a furious border war with the Scots.

Welcome, my son.

Philip VI chose to support Scotland and
its 14 -year -old King David II.

Let's talk about the future.

When Edward III heard that Philip VI had
offered protection to the King of

Scotland and planned to take Aquitaine,
he was furious.

This was treachery.

Edward sent a letter to the King of
France.

It was delivered by the Bishop of
Lincoln wearing full canonical dress.

Faced with such a ceremony, the King of
France, who didn't lack a sense of

humor, laughed out loud.

But when Philip read the letter, the
laughter soon stopped.

Edward had the audacity to write, Lord
Philip de Valois, who claims to be King

of France.

Edward was challenging Philip's right to
rule.

Tell that to your king from me.

I, Philip de Valois, am the only king of
France.

Edward declared himself the legitimate
heir to the French throne.

This was nothing short of a declaration
of war.

In April 1339, the King of France sent
an army to attack the English

stronghold of Aquitaine.

They seized several towns, such as
Samacare and Bly, but Bordeaux stood

Edward III was at war with the Scots
when he found out Philip's offensive in

Aquitaine.

He swore to retaliate, but the English
treasury were empty. He searched for an

ally to finance the war.

Citizen Flanders answered his call.

In January 1340, in Gaume, Belgium,
Edward unfurled his new coat of arms to

baron.

The traditional English lions were now
quartered with gold fleur -de -lis on a

blue background.

the symbol of the French royal family.

With this act, Edward was proclaiming
himself both King of England and France.

Edward's actions were met with an
immediate and ferocious response from

Philip.

In the former royal abbey of Saint
-Denis, Philip summoned his knights

and raised the sacred oriflame, the
standard of the King of France.

The message was clear.

It was a symbol of French military power
and pride, and made it clear that the

fight for France would be a fight to the
death.

War was now on.

But it would take five years to prepare.

July 12, 1346, 750 English ships made
landfall at Saint -Vast -la

-Hougue in Normandy.

The ships transported 15 ,000 men ready
for battle.

But before attacking, Edward knighted
his 16 -year -old son, Prince of Wales.

He would later become known as the Black
Prince because of the color of his

armor.

Edward's army then plundered their way
through Normandy in an orgy of violence.

They left a trail of devastation in
their wake.

Edward's intention was to show that
Philip VI was not capable of protecting

own kingdom.

On July 26, 1346, Edward and his men
attacked the city of Cologne. Over three

days, 5 ,000 men, women, and children
were massacred. The English stole

clothes, vessels of gold and silver.

The English pursued their lust for blood
towards the capital, Paris.

Two weeks after the English invasion,
Philip gathered a vast army at St.

Faced with this threat, Edward turned
and ran. He headed north to the coastal

city of Calais.

Despite having the French army at his
heels, on August 26th, the weary English

stopped here, nearer to the village of
Crecy -en -Pontieu, in the north of

France.

Philip and some of his army arrived at
Crecy during the night.

He immediately sent scouts to judge the
strength of the English army.

The next morning, they reported that the
English appeared to have no more than

11 ,000 men in total.

11 ,000. Thank you, my lords.

Victory is certain. They are 11 ,000. We
are three times as many. Careful, sire.

The English are very well organized.

One of Philip's counselors,

Henri Lemoine de Bal, was less confident
than his sovereign.

He believed that the English had the
better position.

He advised Philip to wait until morning
when the rest of his army had arrived in

camp.

You are right. But in the Middle Ages,
controlling an army was a real

Halt!

Refold the lines!

The men in the front received the king's
order to stop.

Halt!

Halt!

But the men at the back, who couldn't
hear the order, continued to march,

forcing the front forward until,
inevitably, the front line came within

the English.

Philip had lost all hope of holding back
his men.

He ordered the attack.

Forward! Launch the assault!

The first battle of the Hundred Years'
War began.

6 ,000 Genoese crossbowmen hired by
Philip led the attack.

But their bolts fell short of the
English line.

The English archers advanced and fired.

A good archer could shoot 20 arrows a
minute with a range of at least 180

meters.

A crossbowman could only fire five bolts
a minute.

and their average range was less than
150 meters.

In the second line, the king had the
cream of French society, eager to fight.

In the third line, the French foot
soldiers who managed to survive the

arrows threw themselves into the fray,
desperate to spill enemy blood.

The battle continued until nightfall.

The French army began to fall apart.

Under a rain of arrows, the French
soldiers dropped like

flies.

One of the few to break through the
English line was the blind king of

He was so determined to fight, he tied
himself to one of his men.

Courageous or mad, John of Bohemia died
on the field of Crecy.

After 16 furious cavalry charges, the
French retreated. They had been totally

routed.

King Philip, who was wounded in the
throat by an English arrow, watched his

troops run.

Sire, for God's sake, please, all is
lost.

Today it's difficult to imagine the
scale of the disaster that took place at

Crecy. In August 1346, 1 ,542 French
lords and

knights were killed, and more than 10
,000 soldiers were massacred by English

arrows.

The English only lost two knights and 80
men.

Edward's victory was total.

After Crecy, cavalry would never
dominate the field of battle as they

The era of the archer had arrived.

Against all odds, Edward had destroyed
Philip's army.

But the 100 -year war was far from over,
and Edward was still a long way from

snatching the crown of France.

In 1347, Pope Clement VI condemned
Edward for his barbarity in battle.

A good Christian, the English king
listened, and in September he agreed to

truce. The people of France would no
longer live in fear of the marauding

English.

But little did they know, a far greater
killer was on the horizon.

In 1348, a plague known as the Black
Death swept across France.

and a third of the population died.

In August, it jumped across the Channel
and ravaged Dorset for the next 16

months.

When the disease reached London, it
killed 40 ,000 people.

Overall, the plague killed around 25
million people across the whole of

nearly half the population.

As the plague tightened its grip across
Europe, whole villages were abandoned,

farmland deserted, and taxes were
unpaid.

The sudden shortage of money, men, and
food made further war impossible.

Then, suddenly, on August 22, 1350,
Philip VI, the first

Valois king of France, died.

He was fifty -seven years old.

The following Thursday, Philip's body
was brought here to the Basilica of

-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of
France.

Today, He lies next to his son, King
John II.

Philip VI died leaving France devastated
by war and plague.

Historians blame him for having weakened
the French monarchy by granting too

many privileges in order to finance the
war.

It's true that Philip made a strategic
error at Crecy.

But he was a conqueror king who left
France far larger than it had ever been.

The frontiers of the country now
stretched from the foot of the Alps to

powerful city of Montpellier on the
Mediterranean.

In Paris, Philip also left behind the
impressive keep of Vincennes.

It was finally completed by his
grandson, Charles V.

Philip also provided France with a much
-needed sun and air, stability in

uncertain times.

In 1350, Philip's son was crowned King
John II.

He was 31 years old when he inherited
the throne.

He was a stubborn but courageous warrior
and was nicknamed John the Good.

In 1351, he created an order of chivalry
called the Order of the Star.

By St. Denis and St. Michael, I do thee
knight.

John was convinced that chivalry was the
only way to beat the English and seek

revenge for his father's failure at
Cassis.

Show yourself.

On the other side of the channel, the
Plantagenet Edward III was growing weary

and ill.

But he still hoped to wear the crown of
France one day.

He refused to give up, even if at the

moment he did not have the strength to
lead his own army.

He entrusted all military operations to
his son, Edward.

the Black Prince.

The Black Prince was cruel and
ambitious.

He also shared his father's appetite for
the French crown.

In October 1355, the Black Prince, who
landed at Bordeaux, left his Aquitaine

fiefdom. For the next two months, he
swept through Languedoc, killing and

burning.

The Black Prince's tactics were exactly
the same as his father's.

He wanted to terrorize the population
and destabilize the new king.

It was a strategy that worked
brilliantly.

Regions of France, pillaged and
devastated by the English, took decades

recover from the brutal attack.

In the summer of 1356, the Black Prince
and a small band of knights launched a

raid towards the center of France.

King John quickly secured the bridges
over the Loire to stop the English.

The Black Prince turned back, with King
John in hot pursuit.

On September 17th, he caught up with the
English army at the gates of Poitiers.

Ten years after Crecy, the second great
battle of the One Hundred Years' War was

about to begin.

The Black Prince was cornered and
outnumbered.

Desperate to avoid a fight, he promised
not to raise an army against the French

for seven years in exchange for a total
pardon.

But John refused.

He wanted to make an example of his
English enemy and finished what his

had failed to do.

At dawn on September 18th, at Poitiers,
the battle lines were drawn.

The French outnumbered the English by
nearly two to one.

And for once, even the formidable
archers could do nothing to help.

All seemed lost when suddenly, behind
the French lines,

an English banner appeared.

The Black Prince had ordered a few
soldiers to skirt around the French

and surprise the enemy.

The French panicked, and the Black
Prince breached the enemy lines.

On September 19th, against all odds,
King John and his son Philip were

surrounded by enemy soldiers.

Look out on the right!

The English were eager to capture the
King of France, better alive,

but dead if necessary.

In the end, King John had no choice but
to surrender.

After his victory, the Black Prince went
to see his prisoners.

John the Good and his son were on their
gar.

But according to the rules of chivalry,
the Black Prince, Edward, showed

generosity towards his conquered
cousins.

After fine wine, He served them a meal
himself, kneeling as a sign of respect.

The will of God is neither evil nor a
cause for remorse.

You'll be treated with the greatest
regard.

He congratulated John on his bravery. He
told him he had fought better than any

man on the battlefield.

And even in defeat, you have honored
your reputation and the House of France.

But the prince's fine words were of
little consolation to the French king.

Losing what should have been an easy
victory must have been utterly

The next morning, John and his son were
taken to Bordeaux as prisoners.

They were surrounded by the booty stolen
from the French towns and villages.

A few days later they were put aboard a
ship bound for England.

May the 24th, 1357, John the Good made
his entry into London.

He was imprisoned in the Savoy Palace.

In France, Charles, the 18 -year -old
son of John the Good, was quickly named

regent. But the inexperienced boy was
completely overwhelmed by the pressure

leadership.

Not only was his father in an English
prison, but France was in the hands of

mercenaries, terrorizing and pillaging
villages and towns across the kingdom.

You must

do something,

Charles. I know.

I need to think.

The responsibility was all too much for
the Dauphin, Charles.

He desperately wanted to bring his
father home and restore stability no

the cost. But to do that, he would have
to negotiate with King Edward of

England.

The English king demanded a ransom of
four million gold EQs and territories in

France.

He already held Pontieux and Calais in
the north. He now demanded Saint -Ange,

the Limousin, Poitou, Rouergue, and
Béarn.

the equivalent of a third of the Kingdom
of France.

Charles agreed to pay the ransom, but
refused to concede the

territories.

It would have terrifying consequences.

In October 1359, the Black Prince once
again set foot on French soil.

And with him, 30 ,000 troops.

The prince's objective was to show his
strength and prove how weak the French

monarchy was.

The ferocious attack would culminate in
his coronation as king of France

at Reims Cathedral, the traditional
place of consecration.

But Edward would never enter the
cathedral, because the citizens of Reims

refused to open the gates of the city.
So he changed course and set off for the

capital.

Forward!

But Edward's army was too weak to take
Paris by force. So he laid siege in the

hope of forcing the Dauphin to
surrender.

But Charles held firm, and Edward was
forced to negotiate a peace agreement.

On May 1st, 1359, negotiations began in
the little hamlet of Bretigny, near

Charcot.

You've got to understand, this is a very
important cause.

After eight days of discussion, the King
of England was handed the territories

he wanted and agreed to reduce the
ransom for King John to three million

accused.

In return...

Edward renounced his claim to the French
throne.

The treaty came into force in the fall
of 1361.

After a first installment of 400 ,000
gold accused was paid, Edward III

released King John II.

But that was not the end of the story.

King John had to leave three of his sons
in England until the final installment

of the ransom was paid God

bless you

my son

One of his sons, the 24 -year -old
Louis, the Duke of Anjou, escaped and

back to France and the woman he loved.

So King John was forced to return to his
imprisonment in London, three years

after being set free.

Three months later, on April 8, 1364,
King John died in the Savoy Palace.

He was 45 years old.

After his ancestor, the sainted King
Louis, John the Good was the second

in the history of France to have been
made prisoner.

King John's remains were taken back to
Paris.

and interred in the Abbey of Saint
-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of

France.

John the Good never gave up the crown of
France.

His eldest son, the dauphin Charles,
succeeded him as Charles V.

Despite a difficult regency, he was to
become a great king.

Edward had failed to snatch the French
crown, but he was proud to have weakened

a kingdom as rich and powerful as
France.

The Treaty of Bretigny deprived the
kingdom of a quarter of its territory.

Population was decimated.

Whole villages were abandoned.

France was in ruins.

Its people starved and bled dry.

With the death of King John II, the
first phase of the One Hundred Years'

was nearing its end, but France was
preparing for her revenge.