Two Hundred Years' War (1456-1505) (Sacred Accord)

The Angevin War was the fourth phase of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1457, when English armies marched on Paris in the midst of the occupation of the Seine basin by Liégeois forces, to 1460 with the failure of the English to hold French territory for a meaningful amount of time. It followed a long period of peace from the end of the Lancastrian War in 1435. The phase was named after the House of Anjou, the ruling house of the Kingdom of England following the long regency of Margaret over the mentally unstable Henry VI and eventual death of the king without an heir in 1455 - in a tragic fit of rage, Henry had killed his infant son Edward of Westminster. After the invasion of 1457, Margaret and her generals brought the English to the height of their power in France, with the majority of the old Angevin Empire being occupied by the combined armies of England, Castile and Portugal. However, by that time strong French counterattacks in Normandy and Gascony in addition to the occupation of large swathes of Savoyard territory by Austria and Hungary in the east. The war ended formally in a status quo ante bellum, but the secondary effects of the devastation brought by the conflict was felt for decades to come. For instance, France's internal financial system collapsed entirely just a month after the war ended.