hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out a
video titled history of England the 100 Years War extra history so um I found out about a
Hundred Years War in a video that I reacted previously I don't remember what's the name
of the video actually but I found out about it I was like okay I gotta check this out so
um yeah here we are checking it out so um if you are English proper English real English unlike me
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um the Hundred Years War the pageants and tournaments of chivalry knights in burnished armor
the English Archer destroying the flower of French chivalry the great battles of cressie Poitier and
ajinko or just a sign of the brutality of the Middle Ages senseless Warfare and destruction
the death of thousands in the mud of France for nothing more than the greed and ambition of Kings
there's all of this and more in the Hundred Years War it's a story of Courage The Clash of Nations a
story of human endeavor and the Timeless struggle for Supremacy yet there's also another story here
the story of a war that helped Define England has sense of herself her language her role in
the world the Hundred Years War helped form a nation welcome to the extra history of England
it's 1328 the new king of England is a young man called Edward III Edwards
hey Edward the guy who married a 12 year old that's the video that was
the video that was I what was the name of the video when I learned about Edward
I told y'all man I told you I'll be taking notes oh hey man I ain't slacking over here
I'm learning for real these reaction videos are not just reaction they kind of behind
the scenes school yeah yeah since I failed school I um you know catch up with stuff yeah
yeah plus because his mother's lover a man named Roger Mortimer had seized control of
his throne but Edward was a warrior and a leader of men in 1330 at the age of only 17 he gathered
some friends and by pale Moonlight snuck into mortimer's Castle he cut down the guards and
seized Mortimer himself the interloper was dragged through the jeering crowds of London drank to The
Gallows known as the tyburn tree where countless traitors would die over the centuries and hung
by the neck until dead from that point Edward was determined that England and his Royal Court
would be a shining example of culture to all Christendom the court of the young king was a
pageant of color music tournaments and poetry he surrounded himself with the enormously wealthy
nobility and modeled his court on the glory of the ancient and mythical Camelot of King Arthur
a celebration of the cult of chivalry but part of that cult was that the king would lead his Nobles
to war wealth and glory and while at times the nobility did strain against the king's Authority
for the most part they were his natural allies holding their lands from him and working with
him to govern his kingdom and his people and so with his greatest Nobles at his side Edward did
what he loved most and was born for he led his nobility to war and crushed the Scots in battle
but then in 1337 Edward's world was threatened the French were at the gates well all the literal
Gates actually it's a complex dynastic claim involving several hundred years of medieval
inheritance law in international politics we should be able to cover that in just a few
sentences the centuries the French and English Royal dynasties had fought over land in France
in the blue Corner the French Royal Dynasty the valois and in the Red Corner the English Royal
Dynasty the pantagenets and the valuar King of France King Philip VI of France was determined
to take the last of Edward's French lands away from him because medieval kingdoms didn't follow
modern Borders or rules they were the property of a king and his Nobles English names in France went
but Willian the bastard decided that he deserved more than the lands he held in Normandy he made
the most of a distant claim to the English Throne sailed across the channel beat up the
English and became known to history as William the Conqueror the old Anglo-Saxon landowners
were swept away and England became the property of french-speaking Lords French was the language of
the nobility of literature of the king's court English was the language of the peasant prison
the surf fast forward a hundred years and in 1155 a young man called Henry became King Henry II of
England Henry came from Anjou in France and so more French land was added to those Holdings in
Normandy that came from old Billy The Conch plus Henry then married the richest heiress
in Europe always good way of paying the bills the powerful cultured and intelligent Eleanor
of aquiten and she brought even more French land to the English crown Henry and his successes the
plantagenet royal family now owned almost half of modern France they spoke French they loved France
they were French if they had to choose between a croissant and a full English breakfast it'd be
the croissant every time but there's a catch most of these lands were in theory still owned by the
kings of France like all medieval vassals everyone with lands in France was supposed to kneel and pay
homage to the valuar Kings for them in practice though the likes of Billy the Conch and Henry II
were simply too powerful to be forced to do what the valuer told them to do so they just paid lip
service to the French King's theoretical rights and got on with the party but over the centers bit
by bit the valuer had used their rights to take back most of that land while weaker plantagenets
were on the English Throne by the time Edward III was born most of those lands had been successfully
reclaimed by the French leaving only a single Province left in English hands a place called
gascony King Philip VI was determined to take that last Province away from the plantagenets
and England Philip had no doubt he could achieve this after all France was the most powerful and
glorious country in all Christendom it was one of the leading centers of culture and learning
Philip only counted as his equals the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor and that's it England was
just a small damp and slightly grubby country somewhere in the North Sea the French nobility
with a shining Exemplar of chivalry while the English nobility were not Philip made trouble
for Edward he made an alliance with the Scots against the English and then at his court in
1337 he formally confiscated kaskani Edward tried to talk Philip told him to talk to the hand Edward
told him to talk to the edge of his sword he would defend his rights the confiscation was not just an
insult to Edward it was also a threat to English merchants England had two great sources of wealth
one was in the wine trade with gascony the gascon merchants as well as the English hated the idea
of losing the wine trade with England even more important though was the World Trade with the
county of Flanders in the modern day Belgium the textiles enter the Netherlands Flanders
Netherlands the biggest industry in medieval Europe other than agriculture no other industry
was a fresh action of its value and the textile industry was dominated by the densely populated
towns of Northern Italy and Flanders English wool fed that trade English wool was the best
in all Europe finer with longer strands making it easier to turn into yarn and creating the softest
strongest Woolen cloth every year thousands of huge wall sacks were sold to Flemish merchants
and every year Customs Jews from the trade filled the English treasury but a counter Flanders was a
subject of the French King and now King Philip told Flanders they could no longer trade with
the English the Flemish were as horrified as the English without English wool their industry would
die and their people would starve so one Friday in the bustling markets where in Ghent and Flanders
the people gathered excitedly around a wooden stage it was covered with colorful Penance and
flags but they saw a new flag the arms of England quartered with the Royal Arms of France and they
wondered what that could mean a young powerful man stepped forward his name he declared was King
Edward III he had been wrongfully banned from his lands in France Anthony would reclaim his
right the people cheered but there was more by the right of his French mother he was claiming
the very Throne of France itself the Flemish cheered the French giggled was now Unstoppable
at stake on the English side was trade the English rolling Christendom the king's lands in France
held by right for 150 years for a reputation on honor of the King on the French side a unified
country National Prestige and the right of their Monarch to his throne so join us next time as
these two great Kings marshaled their forces and the Hundred Years War begins in earnest oh
no it sucks it doesn't socks not soaks I was hoping to get some more y'all really gotta
lead me to the right videos man because I really don't know what to be searching upon YouTube but
um yeah this was a beautiful video as usual learning that history and um you know absorbing
as much knowledge as possible because why not but get the waste man that's gonna be the end of this
video thank you for watching very much and uh yeah we out of here guys and um yeah the war begun but
I didn't get to hear about it because the video ended sucks either ways guys I'm out of here peace