France (Chaos)

Divergence and
After the deaths of the Fair 1314 and his son  (who may or may not be identical to his OTL counterpart) in 1317, the latter's baby son Jean I became new king. At the beginning, his uncles Charles (-1323) and Philippe (-1327) reigned in his name. In 1336, the young king started a short war with.

Although the question of succession didn't become as urgent as OTL, where it lead to the Hundred-year War, and France still manage to find an opportunity to fight. In 1341, the began. France supported, England - with the result that both were drawn into the war, which now became the First Aquitainian War. It was joined by on England's side and  on France's side. Thanks to their longbows, the English defeated the French several times; and although the wouldn't happen until some decades later, France was hit very hard by the famines and the Peasants' revolt of 1351. At least, in 1349 France acquired the.

In 1353, France has to make peace with England after the defeat in the. John of Montfort became duke of, England got all of (similar as in the peace of OTL 1360), Flanders acquired the.

Now the French king thought about his family and planned to give several duchies from the crown's domain to his sons, as appanage. If that plan had been realized, the French kings would've lost half of their power, since he had no less than four surviving sons. However, in 1355 the French queen Isabelle deposed her incompetent husband and made her son king. About the other sons, the queen promised them lands that had yet to be conquered, in the English territory.

In 1366, went to France. In the same year, the French started the war against England again. Since they had learned how devastating the English / Welsh longbows were, they avoided open fight - with success. In 1385, England and France make peace again; the English lost what they conquered in the last war, going back to the borders of 1340.

1396, the Black Death arrived in France.

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