English King's claims to the French throne is relentless in the year of our Lord, 1300. The forged alliance with Burgundy has resulted in the occupation of Paris and Toulous. But France will not yield to this insubordination by the Duke of Normandy. To combat English-Burgundian aggression France has annexed Brabant and Brittany to hopefuly find conscripts and build its armies. The threats to the French Kingdom are mounting as the English have amassed a naval storm to the north -- such naval might not seen since the great sea-going battles of the Roman civil wars -- Burgundy's defiance in the east and support of the English claim, and the possible invasion of the south by the Aragonese in need of land and resources. Castilian hegemony continue to sweep through the Iberian with the taking of Portugal and the expulsion of the Saracens from Granada...
excerpt translated from the History of Europe by Alphonso Philippe de Castile y Leon.