Results of the Hundred Years War
France: reclaimed its natural borders; became one nation with a renewed sense of national identity and royal power; 1/2 the population (estimated) died; completed the process of making France a united nation ready to enter the modern age; beginning of the end of feudalism; countryside of France devastated
England: lost its "continental" influence, and truly became more of a maritime economy; began to look elsewhere for economic opportunities (eventually overseas); end of feudalism and the reliance on knights in the army; decline of highly trained nobles in the army, and the rise of peasant infantry (longbow, cannon); end of influence of French language on upper levels of English society and government
Overall: Long-standing conflict between England and France continued; changed warfare forever; England and France remained most powerful nations in Western Europe.
Below, English archers hold off French knights
in the Battle of Blakeswood...
France: reclaimed its natural borders; became one nation with a renewed sense of national identity and royal power; 1/2 the population (estimated) died; completed the process of making France a united nation ready to enter the modern age; beginning of the end of feudalism; countryside of France devastated
England: lost its "continental" influence, and truly became more of a maritime economy; began to look elsewhere for economic opportunities (eventually overseas); end of feudalism and the reliance on knights in the army; decline of highly trained nobles in the army, and the rise of peasant infantry (longbow, cannon); end of influence of French language on upper levels of English society and government
Overall: Long-standing conflict between England and France continued; changed warfare forever; England and France remained most powerful nations in Western Europe.
Below, English archers hold off French knights
in the Battle of Blakeswood...