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- On 24th May, 1337, King Phillip
de Valois of France, desiring to unite the patchwork of fiefs
and feudal holdings that diluted Royal power, declared that Guyenne
(the lands around Bordeaux held by the English for a century)
had been forfeited by King Edward "because of the many excesses,
rebellious and disobedient acts committed by the King of England
against Us and Our Royal Majesty". Edward responded by asserting
a long-standing
Plantagenet claim to the French Crown. Slowly, the two kingdoms
lumbered into war...
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