Civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians
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| Part of the Hundred Years' War | ||||||||
 The Cabochien Revolt |
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  Armagnac party |
 Burgundian party |
 England |
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.svg){kind=small} Louis of Orléans Charles of Orléans Bernard VII of Armagnac
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 John the Fearless Philip the Good
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Henry IV of England Henry V of England
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The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a civil war between two cadet branches of the French royal family — the House of Orleans (Armagnac faction) and the House of Burgundy (Burgundian faction) from 1407 to 1435. It began during a lull in the Hundred Years' War against the English and overlapped with the Western Schism of the papacy.
The war's causes were rooted in the reign of Charles VI of France and a confrontation between two different economic, social and religious systems. On the one hand was France, very strong in agriculture, with a strong feudal and religious system, and on the other was England, a country whose rainy climate favoured pasture and sheep-farming and where artisans, the middle classes and cities were important. The Burgundians were in favour of the English model (the more so since Flanders, whose cloth merchants were the main market for English wool, belonged to the Duke of Burgundy), while the Armagnacs defended the French model. In the same way, the Western Schism induced the election of an Armagnac-backed antipope based at Avignon, Pope Clement VII, opposed by the English-backed pope of Rome, Pope Urban VI.
With Charles VI mentally ill, from 1393, his wife Isabeau of Bavaria presided over a regency counsel, on which sat the grandees of the kingdom. The uncle of Charles VI, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who acted as regent during the king's minority (from 1380 to 1388), was a great influence on the queen (he had organized the royal marriage during his regency). This influence progressively shifted to Louis I, Duke of Orléans, the king's brother, and it was suspected, the queen's lover. On the death of Philip the Bold, his son John the Fearless (who was less linked to Isabeau) again lost influence at court. The other uncle of Charles VI, John, Duke of Berry, served as a mediator between the Orléans party (what would become the Armagnacs) and the Burgundy party, whose rivalry would increase bit by bit and in the end, result in a true civil war.
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