Treaty of Paris settles Anglo-French lands

1259

Louis IX and Henry III signed a treaty at Paris in which Henry renounced Normandy, Anjou, Maine, and Poitou, while retaining Gascony as a French fief. The settlement set the terms of Anglo-French quarrels for a century and planted the seeds of the Hundred Years War. The complex feudal relationship created by the treaty, in which England's king was simultaneously France's vassal, guaranteed future conflict.