The
Lancastrian War was the third phase of the
Anglo-French Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1415, when
Henry V of England invaded
Normandy, to 1453 with the failure of the English to recover Bordeaux. It followed a long period of peace from the end of the
Caroline War in 1389. The phase was named after the
House of Lancaster, the ruling house of the Kingdom of England, to which Henry V belonged. After the invasion of 1419, Henry V and, after his death, his brother
John of Lancaster,
Duke of Bedford, brought the English to the height of their power in France, with an English king crowned in
Paris. However, by that time, with charismatic leaders such as
Joan of Arc and
La Hire, strong French counterattacks had started to win back all English continental territories, except the
Pale of Calais, which was finally
captured in 1558.
Charles VII of France was
crowned in Notre-Dame de Reims in 1429. The
Battle of Castillon (1453) was the last battle of the Hundred Years' War, but France and England remained formally at war until the
Treaty of Picquigny in 1475. English, and later British, monarchs would continue to
claim the French throne until 1801.