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The dual monarchy of England and France existed during the latter phase of the Hundred Years' War when Charles VII of France and Henry VI of England disputed the succession to the throne of France. It commenced on 21 October 1422 upon the death of King Charles VI of France , who had signed the Treaty of Troyes which gave the French crown to his ...
English claimants to the throne of France: kings of England and later of Great Britain (renounced by Hanoverian King George III upon union with Ireland in 1800). Jacobite claimants to the throne of France: senior heirs-general of Edward III of England and thus his claim to the French throne [broken anchor], also claiming England, Scotland, and ...
The war in France continued but gradually petered out and a truce was signed in 1389. [47] Richard pursued a policy of peace with France for the rest of his reign, [48] but nevertheless continued to use the style king of France. [49] He also continued to actively advance his grandfather's claim whenever the opportunity arose.
Iola Price Ahl (1970), Opposing Theories of Succession to the English Throne, 1681-1714; Howard Nenner (1995), The Right to be King: the succession to the Crown of England, 1603-1714, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 9780807822470; Jason L. Craig (1998), A Historiographical Look at the Succession to the English Throne
English monarchs would still claim the throne of France until 1800. The English monarchy increasingly integrated with its subjects and turned to the English language wholeheartedly during the Hundred Years' War between 1337 and 1453. Though the war was in principle a mere dispute over territory, it drastically changed societies on both sides of ...
British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims. Throughout this article, the names of "would-have-been" monarchs are in italics.
Edward III was the first English king to have a claim to the throne of France. His pursuit of the claim resulted in the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), which pitted five kings of England of the House of Plantagenet against five kings of France of the Capetian House of Valois.
Anglophobia in France, 1763–1789: an essay in the history of constitutionalism and nationalism (Duke UP, 1950). Andrew, Christopher, "France and the Making of the Entente Cordiale" Historical Journal 10#1 (1967), pp 89–105. Andrews, Stuart. The British periodical press and the French Revolution, 1789–99 (Macmillan, 2000) Baer, Werner.