A fifteenth-century painting of the battle of Crécy from Froissart's Chronicles, crossbowmen facing longbowmen
The battle of Crécy, from Froissart's Chronicles, 15th century
Marked Crécy

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Hundred Years’ War

Kings of England claimed the crown of France and fought for it, on and off, for more than a century. English longbows won at Crécy and Agincourt; Joan of Arc turned the tide, and England lost almost everything in France.

Place
Crécy · Poitiers · Agincourt · Orléans · CastillonEurope
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet
Image
Loyset Liédet, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

The kings of England and their allies

  1. IA claim to the crown
  2. IICrécy and the longbow
  3. IIIThe Black Prince
  4. IVAgincourt
  5. VJoan of Arc
  6. VICannon and the end

The kings of France and their allies

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Edward III
  • Edward the Black Prince
  • Henry V
  • Joan of Arc
  • Charles VII

Objects

  • Longbows raised with the Mary Rose (from 1545)
  • Froissart’s Chronicles

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1337 to 1453. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?