Philip VI confiscates Aquitaine
May 1337
The French king declared Edward III's continental fief forfeit because the English king had refused to perform homage as instructed. Edward replied by formally claiming the French crown himself in October, quartering the French lilies on his arms. By autumn, the longest war in European history had a casus belli though not yet a battle.
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