Who Do You Root For: Hundred Years War

[Admiral Yi]

I was thinking about a who root for poll on the War of the Roses, but at this point I can't see anyone voting for the Yorkists.

[mongers]

Toffish infighting. 

[Eddie Teach]

  Viva Britannia

[CountDeMoney]

[garbon]

Not France. Have you seen that country?

[11B4V]

England. Frenchies suck.

[jimmy olsen]

I don't particularly root for either side.

I do like Henry V and Joan of Arc.

[Ed Anger]

I was thinking about a who root for poll on the War of the Roses, but at this point I can't see anyone voting for the Yorkists.

Uh, me. Lancaster sucks.

[grumbler]

The war's actual outcome was about as positive for future development as we could have hoped for, so that's what i "root for."  A long-term English crown presence in France would have delayed or even stopped the development of the system of common law and devolved powers that made England (and later, Britain) the cockpit of democracy, liberalism, and market capitalism.  A longer stay on the continent would have reinforced absolutism and sucked the economy dry of money to pay for wars.

[Sophie Scholl]

I was thinking about a who root for poll on the War of the Roses, but at this point I can't see anyone voting for the Yorkists.

Uh, me. Lancaster sucks.

Seriously.  Who the hell would support the Lancaster or Tudor factions?  York is the only legitimate option and legitimate claim.

[Ed Anger]

I was thinking about a who root for poll on the War of the Roses, but at this point I can't see anyone voting for the Yorkists.

Uh, me. Lancaster sucks.

Seriously.  Who the hell would support the Lancaster or Tudor factions?  York is the only legitimate option and legitimate claim.

I might name my next kid "Rutland".

[grumbler]

I was thinking about a who root for poll on the War of the Roses, but at this point I can't see anyone voting for the Yorkists.

Uh, me. Lancaster sucks.

Seriously.  Who the hell would support the Lancaster or Tudor factions?  York is the only legitimate option and legitimate claim.

"Right of conquest" is the basis for the York claim to the throne, so it is no more legitimate than Lancaster or Tudor.  In fact, Henry VII is probably more legitimate than the others because he claimed to be the conqueror himself, not the watered-down descendant of a conqueror.

[Sophie Scholl]

"Right of conquest" is the basis for the York claim to the throne, so it is no more legitimate than Lancaster or Tudor.  In fact, Henry VII is probably more legitimate than the others because he claimed to be the conqueror himself, not the watered-down descendant of a conqueror.

Meh.  He only managed that as there weren't any other major claimants left over to oppose him and it allowed him to declare any supporter of Richard III as a traitor and attain them.  He initially drew on his ties to the Plantagenet Dynasty as his claim prior to Bosworth and married Elizabeth of York to firm up the familial claim and lineage aspect.  Edward could have claimed his rule via "Right of Conquest", but the better and more respectable route was via lineage at the point in time.

[Sophie Scholl]

The war's actual outcome was about as positive for future development as we could have hoped for, so that's what i "root for."  A long-term English crown presence in France would have delayed or even stopped the development of the system of common law and devolved powers that made England (and later, Britain) the cockpit of democracy, liberalism, and market capitalism.  A longer stay on the continent would have reinforced absolutism and sucked the economy dry of money to pay for wars.

This option for the poll at hand.

[Valmy]

Not France. Have you seen that country?

Yeah it is amazing

Or at least it was 16 or so years ago.

France of course. Even though the English aggression that triggered the war set up the system that allowed the French King to tax without having to call the Estates which I consider a rather unfortunate development. It is hard to imagine a world where the war was not fought though so who knows how things might have developed? There probably might not even be a France today with how decentralized it was at the time. Who knows?