Illustrations

Philip VI, King of France (1328–50)

The Great Seal of Edward III (from Francis Sanford, A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, Monarch of Great Britain, 1671)

The Long-bow

The Crossbow

Sir Hugh Hastings, from a printer’s ink rubbing of 1788 by Craven Ord (British Library)

The Battle of Crécy

John II, King of France (1350–64)

Sir John de Cobham (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Seal of the Black Prince as Duke of Aquitaine (in Sanford, A Genealogical History)

Charles V, King of France (1364–80)

The Duke of Anjou, from Froissart’s Chronicles (in Humphreys, Illustrations of Froissart)

Sir Thomas Hungerford, d. 1397 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

John of Gaunt – engraving of a window at All Souls’ (from Carter, Specimens of the Ancient Sculpture and Painting)

Richard II and the Duke of Gloucester, from Froissart’s Chronicles (in Humphreys, Illustrations of Froissart)

Sir Robert Swynborne and his son, Sir Thomas, c. 1412 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Henry V’s Great Seal (from Sanford, A Genealogical History)

John Peryent and his wife, 1415 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Lord and Lady Camoys (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1396–1467)

Gold salut of Henry VI (from G.R. Ainslie, Illustrations of the Anglo-French Coinage, 1830)

Charles VII, King of France (1422–61)

Genealogical tables

The claim of Edward III to the throne of France

The children and grand-children of Edward III

The descendants of John II of France

The Houses of Lancaster and Beaufort

Diagrams and Maps

The Battle of Crécy, 1346

The Battle of Poitiers, 1356

The Battle of Agincourt, 1415

The Battle of Verneuil, 1424

The Battle of Formigny, 1450

The Battle of Castillon, 1453

France in 1337

English possessions in France, 1360

English possessions in France, 1429