Why did the Hundred Years War last so long?

Answer 1

It was a different length for different people. Besides it was a series of wars. And also The Hundred-and-sixteen-years War doesn't have quite the same ring to it so they had to round it down.

Answer 2

One reason the Hundred Years' War lasted for so lonnggg was because it became a French civil war, with some French barons advocating English monarchs in order to thwart the centralizing goals of the French crown. The French kept stopping for long lunch breaks, but in this case they took it to the extreme.


The French kept stopping for really long lunch and dinner breaks, and the English kept nipping off to the hyper-markets to stock up on tobacco and cheap wine. Add in the French Farmers blockades, Then a woman got involved (look at you, you can't go and fight looking like that, is that blood, have you put on clean underwear) that is why the war lasted so long. It's lucky it didn't last 300 years.

Take away all the truces, and the War actually lasted 81 years

Answer 3

It was 116 years long so they rounded it down to a hundred.
This war, or series of skirmishes took place over a period from 1337 till 1453, (136 years) and was a dynastic quarrel between the Houses of Valois and Plantagenet.

Eventually the Plantagenets lost out.

Notable events later in the series were the figure of Joan of Arc, and the Battle of Crecy.

In this battle canon were used for the first time, and it is claimed that 60 000 Frenchmen died in the crush to see this new weapon of war. That semi-quote is from "1066 and all That" and ignores the reality that the battle was won by the long-bow men who had a formidable rate of fire.

Answer 4

Very simply, historians felt the name "The Hundred Years War" was more dramatic than "The Hundred and Sixteen Years War"

Answer 5

Because it lasted for over 100 years. 116 in fact. 100 years sounds better.

Answer 6

It lasted 116 years. "The Hundred-and sixteen Years' War" would sound stupid so they rounded it down to 100 years.

Answer 7

It lasted longer, from 1337-1453.

Answer 8

No, it lasted 116 years.