Permanent historical factsheet

Declaration of War

Name: Declaration of War – England factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

England · Warfare / Hundred Years War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records

1337–1338Date range

1Named people

2Places

Chronological records

1337

Edward III1337

Antwerp · Warfare / Hundred Years War

Edward III crosses to Antwerp & invades France beginning the Hundred Years war

Edward III1337

Paris · Warfare / Hundred Years War

The Bishop of Lincoln challenges "Philippe, who calls himself King of France"

1338

Edward III6 May 1338

Warfare / Hundred Years War

Cancels the truce with France after the attack on Portsmouth & the Isle of Wight

Names involved

Edward III

Provenance

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