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  • The Battle for Flanders
  • Flanders had grown to be the industrial center of northern Europe and had become extremely wealthy through its cloth manufacture
  • It could not produce enough wool to satisfy its market and imported fine fleece from England
  • During the 1200's, the upper-class English had adopted Norman fashions and switched from beer to wine.
  • beer and wine were very important elements in the medieval diet.
  • The problem was that England could not grow grapes to produce the wine that many of the English now favored and had to import it
  • English fleece was exchanged for Flemish cloth, which was then taken to southern France and exchanged for wine,
  • But the counts of Flanders had been vassals of the king of France, and the French tried to regain control of the region in order to control its wealth
  • The English could not permit this, since it would mean that the French monarch would control their main source of foreign exchange.
  • A civil war soon broke out in Flanders, with the English supporting the manufacturing middle class and the French supporting the land-owning nobility.
  • The Struggle for Control of France
  • The English king controlled much of France, particularly in the fertile South
  • These lands had come under control of the English when Eleanor of Aquitaine, heiress to the region, had married Henry II of England
  • bickering
  • the French kings always had to fear an English invasion from the South.
  • Flanders in the North and the English in the South, they were caught in a "nutcracker".
  • The "Auld Alliance"
  • The French responded by creating their own "nutcracker." They allied with the Scots in an arrangement
  • The Battle for the Channel and North Sea
  • The French nutcracker would only work if the French could invade England across the English Channel.
  • England could support their Flemish allies only if they could send aid across the North Sea
  • Consequently, the French continually tried to gain the upper hand at sea, and the English constantly resisted them
  • dependent upon the free flow of naval traffic
  • The Dynastic Conflict
  • The last son of King Philip IV (The Fair) died in 1328
  • Philip had had a daughter
  • Isabelle, had married King Edward II of England, and King Edward III was their son.
  • French lawyers brought up some old Frankish laws, the so-called Salic Law, which stated that property (including the throne) could not descend through a female
  • The French then gave the crown to Philip of Valois, a nephew of Philip IV.
  • An Agressive Spirit in England
  • France was the most populous country in Western Europe (20 million inhabitants to England's 4-5 million)
  • England had a strong central government, many veterans of hard fighting on England's Welsh and Scottish borders
  • Edward was disposed to fight France,
  • THE COURSE OF THE WAR

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