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The name promises a hundred years of unbroken battles between England and France. The reality is longer and stranger.
The so-called Hundred Years' War ran from 1337 to 1453: that's 116 years, not a hundred. And it wasn't even one continuous war, but a series of conflicts separated by long truces, fragile peaces and whole years of tense calm. The name was coined by historians much later, to bundle that whole dynastic mess into a handy label.
Over those 116 years, five English kings came and went, and as many French ones. No one who started the war saw it end; many were born and died knowing nothing but that background conflict. A reminder that the names we give history are, quite often, a trick to make it fit inside our heads.