Second Aquitainian War (Chaos)

In the , and had fought for the land of Aquitaine, without coming to a result. England still wished for enlarging its part of France, and France wanted to own all of it.
In 1414, England under new king made alliances with and the , attacked France again. The Second Aquitainian War had begun.
While it went promising at the beginning, in 1421 France broke the coalition by making a separate peace with the Netherlands, giving emperor , which was incorporated into the Netherlands. Now, the tides turned again: Storming the conquered cities with cannons and relying on their greater manpower, the French slowly drove the allied English and Castillians back.
In 1424, the Cortes, the Castillian estates, protested the high costs and low results of the war. King was sorry about it, but had to leave the war too. He had better things to do, in fact: Interfering in the .
The war ended unexpectedly in 1426 when the pope and the king asked the French king for a crusade against the , king agreed to fight the instead. He made peace with the English, leaving Guyenne in their hands; king Richard III had to accept it as a fief, though.
Neither England nor France was really happy with this result of the war, so it was no wonder that the would follow later.
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Category:Aquitainian Wars (Chaos)