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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Also in 1337 (3 other events on record)
- Edward III claims the French throne, Hundred Years' War begins · Europe · War
- Mansa Musa commissions the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu · Africa · Culture
- Benedict XII begins the Palais des Papes at Avignon · Europe · Culture
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.