Chapter 12 - The Hundred Years' War

So you got Queen Isabella of England, and her lover Mortimer(what a funny name), and their Barons, who kill her incompetent husband, Edward II, and say that his son, Edward III, who's fifteen, is king of England. Then Charles IV of France, the last surviving son of Philip the Fair, died without an heir to the throne. Isabella was the daughter of Philip the Fair, but a group of French barons didn't want her to get the French throne, or her son, so they named a nephew of Philip the Fair to the throne, Philip VI. Originally in 1259 France and England had signed the treaty of Paris, which made the English King and his successors vassals of the French crown for the duchy of Aquitaine. Later, although Edward III had paid homage to Philip VI for Aquitaine, Philip confescated the area, and Edward thought this a cause for war. Edward also claimed that he should have the French trhone, being the dsirect male descendant of Philip the Fair. The governments spread their propoganda and all the people were scared of an invasion by the other side. This was also the time when all the chivalry and stuff died, and fell to the power of numbers.