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with Burgundy and Aquitaine providing notable support for the Plantagenet side.
The conflict lasted 116 years but was punctuated by several periods of peace, before it finally ended in
the expulsion of the Plantagenets from France (except the Pale of Calais). The war was eventually a
victory for the house of Valois, who succeeded in recovering the Plantagenet gains made initially and
expelling them from the majority of France by the 1450s. However, the war nearly ruined the Valois,
while the Plantagenets gained huge amounts of plunder from the mainland, which enriched England.
France itself likewise suffered greatly from the war, as most of the conflict occurred on the continent.
15. Wat Tyler's Rebellion took place in 1381. The first great popular rebellion in English history.
Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, which brought to a head the