He called War of the Hundred Years to one of the wars most important and relevant history, mainly because of the extensive time lasting and slow to be solved. It should be noted that, although the name indicates one hundred years, the truth is that said conflict, which had England and France as the main protagonists, lasted about 116 years, to be a little more specific it lasted from 1337 to 1453. The conflict It took place in various regions of the European continent, however thanks to the fact that the conflict arose around the seizure of power political in France, most of the confrontations took place within the territory of France.
This conflict is considered one of the last major events that arose during the Middle Ages, due to the fact that many historians understand it as the final confrontation between the feudal lords that were still in force at that time on the European continent and that later to this conflict, they would go into total decline in the face of the establishment of absolute monarchies.
The war took place between two ruling houses of the time, on the one hand, in France was the house of Valois and the other was the house of Plantagenet, who represented England in some French territories. After the end of the dynasty of the Capetian kings in France, both houses went to war to make the decision of which of the two would be the one that would have power in one of the most important and richest territories of the time in Europe.
For its part, The House of Valois had the support of a large part of the French regions and regions of other countries such as Castile, Aragon, Scotland, Bohemia and Genoa. In the case of the House of Plantagenet, it had on its side the independent kingdoms of Burgundy, Aquitaine, Flanders, Navarre, Portugal, Luxembourg and the Holy Roman Empire. It should be noted that each of the aforementioned territories intended to defend the interests of each one of them and later obtain benefits if the victory of the faction to which they belonged was given.
