Edward III then besieged Calais. After a year, the inhabitants were starving. Six leading citizens offered their own lives if Edward III would spare the rest of the townsfolk.
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Peace was declared in 1360. The English won a massive victory at Poitiers capturing the French King Jean le Bon.
New English King Richard II faced an English Peasants' Revolt in 1381. This weakened England in France.
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In 1407 the French royal family divided into two camps - the Armagnacs (Maison d'Orleans) and the Burgundians. Their feud plunged France into civil war
In 1415 Henry V, king of England, annihilated the French at the battle of Agincourt English archers wiped out the flower of the French nobility.
In 1420 France signed the Treaty of Troyes with Henry V agreeing to allow him to run the two countries as a dual kingdom.