The Hundred Years' War was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, vacant with the extinction of the senior Captain line of French kings. The two primary contenders were the House of Valois, and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou. The Plantagenet Kings in England had their roots in the French regions of Anjou and Normandy. French soldiers fought on both sides, with Burgundy and Aquitaine providing notable support for the Plantagenet side.
The conflict lasted 116 years but was punctuated by several brief periods of peace, and two lengthy periods of peace, before it finally ended in the expulsion of the Plantagenets from France. Subtracting the two long periods of peace from 1360–69 and 1389–1415, the war was fought for about 81 years. The war was a tactical victory for the Plantagenets, who secured the succession of the French throne after the Treaty of Troyes and had Henry VI of England crowned King in Paris in 1431.
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