Gascony under English rule
For 300 years, large parts of France were ruled by English kings. The story involved some of the most interesting characters of medieval European history and some of its most dramatic events. The cast of characters includes Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II, Richard I, Edward III, The Black Prince and Joan of Arc. The events encompass the battles of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt and other events such as the peasants revolt and the black-death. This book is the most complete account of that period.
For 300 years Gascony was connected with the crown of England. In 1152 the marriage of Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, to the young Henry Plantagenet — shortly to become King of the English — brought to him vast possessions in South-western France, of which Gascony was a part; a part which, through many vicissitudes, was not to be completely lost to the English till the final conquest of Bordeaux by the French King in 1453.