The war was essentially a conflict where English kings claimed to be the rightful monarchs of France to secure their territorial and political standing in Gascony.

“In order to secure my position in Gascony and stop the threat of it being taken away from me because I won't pay homage to the King of France. I myself I'm going to claim to be King of France and that's going to be my excuse to kind of go to go for an expansive war.”