The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion (Hundred Years War, 5)

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After making his pledge of allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR of the People's Republic of China as part of the judicial oath, [34] Lord Sumption officially commenced his office as a Hong Kong judge on 18 December 2019.

Perhaps because royal successions are not always straightforward, and possession becomes nine ninths of the law. The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption’s prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, "one of the great historical undertakings of our age. Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, OBE , PC , FSA , FRHistS, KC (born 9 December 1948), is a British author, medieval historian and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018. Sumption begins with the laying to rest of Charles VI of France in an abbey just north of Paris and the proclamation of his successor “Henry, by the Grace of God King of France and England”.Surprisingly, Sumption claims that the idea of an English “continental wall” to protect against invasion “made little sense” in the late Middle Ages. Sumption has been highly critical of the British government's lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on civil libertarian grounds, seeing them as a slippery slope, [53] [37] while also criticising the legal basis for their enactment and the enforceability of COVID-19 control measures. The death of Charles IV led to a crisis of succession that for the next four generations would embroil France and England in a war of unimaginable savagery.

The claim to the French crown was more tenuous and was initially advanced as a bargaining chip, but was made a partial reality by the victories of Henry V. Upon his subsequent swearing-in on 11 January 2012, [1] he assumed the judicial courtesy title of Lord Sumption pursuant to a royal warrant (by which all members of the Supreme Court, even if they do not hold a peerage title, are accorded the style of " Lord" for life). The more land France reconquered, the greater its tax base; painfully, the opposite was true for the English. Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak".Planet Normal: Use of fear has brought about 'the greatest invasion of personal liberty in our history' –Lord Sumption". A war fought entirely on French soil had laid waste to much of the north of the country, and forged fierce enmities and ideas of nationhood on both sides.