Why did the Hundred Years War go on so long?

>>1532348
It didn't it was a series of wars.

They were just having so darn much fun

They were gonna wrap it up around 85th year but then it was so close to 100 anyway so they went for it.

>>1532374
This.

Anglos and French have the best banter

I mean just look at any wars that germany start, they're always miserable

>>1532348
>war start
>anglos win a decisive victory with 75% of the french nobility staying on the battlefield
>takes an eternity for the french to retake all the territory lost after this single battle
>repeat it another time

England and France were too evenly matched and a war like that would just go on forever.

At the time no one really thought about it being a continuous war but in hindsight historians just group the whole thing up because it was just England and France fighting for political dominance

>>1532481
What is it that make the English and French so superior to other Europeans?

What made them greater than the lesser ethnicities like the Germans?

>>1532348
It was a series of conflicts over an extended period of time, lumped into one war by french historians to make France the overall victor.

Feudal states trying to fight a modern war.

>>1532506
From 960 to 1250 (roughly) the HRE was by far the stronkest state in western Europe.

After that though, everything went to shit.

>>1532510
at the time England and France were the only two european states with black kings

>>1532348

Black plague happened, countries couldn't get their shit together for awhile after that

>>1532523
>the HRE

Don't make me post him

>>1532348
It's actually four different conflicts over the same dispute (the succession of France). We lump it together as a "Hundred years war" (that actually lasted 115 years with long periods of peace in between) for the sake of convenience, and instead of referring to four different wars we refer to four different "phases" of the same war.

It wasn't a long continuous war, it was a series of shorter campaigns by England against France that were lumped together after the fact with the later French resurgence that expelled England from the continent. Also it technically everything they count as part of the "war" lasted longer than 100 years, but Hundred Years' War has a nice ring to it.

As for why it kept up, mainly the greed and posturing of the English royal family. Because the English royal family at the start of the war is so closely related to the French royal line, they begin pressing claims on the French throne and seeking to claim or "reclaim" French territories. There's all kinds of disputes between England and France going on though, like the fact that the English Duchy of Gascony is technically a vassal of the King of France, which also caused a ton of problems down the line. English would refuse to pay homage or something and the French would declare all English titles forfeit, English invade, they fight some battles, get tired, call it off, sign a treaty, exchange some lands change the borders and everybody goes home. Repeat for 120+ years.

>>1532506
They weren't, England had just slowly made it's way up to being a semi-decent small kingdom and France had fallen greatly so it was still a even matchup. It wouldn't be until the 17th century that England would even look like a European power, the transformation from the time Henry VIII to Charles II was ridiculous

>>1532562
And this isn't even anything new. It's been a thing since literally William the Conqueror, and part of the rivalry between Richard Coeur de Lion and Philippe Auguste. The supposed Hundred Years War simply put an end to Plantagenet intervention in France (and their entire dynasty on top of that).

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>>1532536
The what what what?

>>1532580
It was for the best really. That incessant sibling rivalry with France held back England for centuries.

>>1532533
It really says a lot that even in the face of the black death the English persisted in their war against France.

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>>1532348
Every time the French were winning they went full retard and attacked the English in pitched battle. Preferable when the English were firmly entrenched and with secure flanks.

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This isn't related but..
>Hastings wasn't a French victory
>Agincourt was an English victory
Why do Anglos do this?

>>1532681
>butthurt frog

>>1532681
>French victory
>lead to English control of Normandy

>>1532706
You got it backwards.

>>1532714
>French loss
>followed English loss of Normandy

>>1532726
>French Normans win at Hastings
>Normandy gets control of England

100 years war was just frogs vs other frogs, Anglos were just cannon fodder.

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>>1532737
>Normans
>Not Viking rape babies

30 years war was more brutal.

>>1532750
>A few "viking" nobles settle in Normandy
>They rule over Frenchmen, intermarry with French nobles and end up speaking French
Queen Elizabeth is literally more German than the Normans were Scandinavian by the time William and his clique rolled up to England.

>>1532737
What a great victory for the French Crown.

>>1532763
You know very well the issue isn't if it was the French crown or not but the English being ready to use terms like "Anglo-Norman" to make it seem like they weren't French speaking Frenchmen.

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>>1532614
I feel like this was made for you.

Courtesy of r/Vexillology.

>>1532576
>butthurt

>>1532750
>buying into the rape baby meme
This is a respectable academic board, anon