History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ... . m to Isabella, thesister, who was queen of England, because theysaid and maintained, and still do insist, that thekingdom of France is so noble that it ought notto go to a woman; consequently neither to Isa-bella, nor to her son, the king of England [Ed-ward III.] ; for they hold that the son of a womancannot claim any right of succession, where thatwoman has none herself. For these reasons thetwelve peers and barons of France unanimouslygave the kingdom o
History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ... . m to Isabella, thesister, who was queen of England, because theysaid and maintained, and still do insist, that thekingdom of France is so noble that it ought notto go to a woman; consequently neither to Isa-bella, nor to her son, the king of England [Ed-ward III.] ; for they hold that the son of a womancannot claim any right of succession, where thatwoman has none herself. For these reasons thetwelve peers and barons of France unanimouslygave the kingdom of France to the lord Philip ofValois, nephew to king Philip, and thus put asidethe queen of England, who was sister to Charles,the late king of France, and her son. Thus, asit seemed to many jieoiilc, the succession wentout of the right line; which has been the occasionof the most destructive wars and devastations ofcountries, as well in France as elsewhere, as youwill learn hereafter; the real object of this his-tory being to relate the great enterprises anddeeds of arms achieved in these wars, for from 1200 onnnn 1 i i 2 ? « K S. n r FRANCE, 1328-1339. Beginning of theHundred Years War. FRANCE, 1347-1348. the time of good Charlemagne, king of France,never were such feats performed.—J. Froissart,Chronicles {Johiies), hk. 1, ch. 4.— From the mo-ment of Charles death [A. D. 1328], EdwardIII. of England buoyed himself up with a notionof his title to the crown of France, in right of hismother Isabel, sister to the three last kings. Wecan have no hesitation in condemning the injus-tice of this pretension. Whether the Salic lawwere or were not valid, no advantage could begained by Edward. Even if he couUl forget theexpress or tacit decision of all France, there stoodin his way Jane, the daughter of Louis X., three[daughters] of Philip the Long, and one ofCharles the Fair. Aware of this, Edward setupa distinction, that, althougli females were ex-cluded from succession, the
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