Books
War
Hundred Years’ War in France
1337–1453 CE
The Hundred Years’ War in France was fought across shifting theatres, from Normandy and Gascony to the Loire and Île-de-France. French kings faced English armies, Burgundian rivalry, noble faction, taxation, mercenaries, and popular suffering. The war moved from humiliating defeats to eventual recovery under Charles VII.
This framing matters because the war was experienced in France as occupation, fragmentation, and survival, not just as a sequence of English victories. Towns, villages, nobles, clergy, and royal officials all faced hard choices. French recovery depended on military reform, political consolidation, and renewed legitimacy.
Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings prepares the dynastic background, while Joan of Arc novels by Katherine J. Chen and Kimberly Cutter focus on the later recovery. Bernard Cornwell’s English-soldier perspective can be balanced with French-centred fiction about civilians, courtiers, and soldiers rebuilding a kingdom.
Related people for Hundred Years’ War in France
Agnès Sorelc. 1422–1450 Bernabò Visconti1323–1385 Bertrand du Guesclin1320–1380 Catherine of Valois1401–1437 Charles II of Navarre1332–1387 Charles IV of France1294–1328 Charles VII of France1403–1461 Charles VI of France1368–1422 Charles V of France1338–1380 Edward, the Black Prince1330–1376 Edward III of England1312–1377 Edward IV1442–1483 Elizabeth Mortimer1371–1417 Galeazzo II Visconti1320–1378 Henry II of Castile1334–1379 Henry IV of England1367–1413 Henry Percy (Hotspur)1364–1403 Henry VI1421–1471 Henry V of England1386–1422 Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester1390–1447 Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord1301–1364 Isabeau of Bavaria1371–1435 Isabella of France1295–1358 Joan of Arc1412–1431 Joan of Kent1328–1385 John Hawkwoodc. 1320–1394 John II of France1319–1364 John of Gaunt1340–1399 John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford1389–1435 John XXIII1370–1419 Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence1338–1368 Mahaut, Countess of Artois1269–1329 Marie of Anjou1404–1463 Owain Glyndŵrc. 1354–c. 1416 Peter of Castile1334–1369 Philip VI of France1293–1350 Richard II1367–c. 1400 Richard Whittington1354–1423 Robert III of Artois1287–1342 Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March1287–1330 Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence1387–1421 Yolande of Aragon1381–1442 Étienne Marcel1315–1358
Non-Fiction
4 Best Non-Fiction Books About the Hundred Years’ War in France
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
