How did the Hundred Years War weaken the feudal system?? ?
In simple overview terms,the feudal system involved individual nobles,knights and landowners pledged allegiance to the king in return for recognition of the ownership of their land.This allegiance included having to provide military service,a certain number of men depending on the wealth/amount of land an individual owned.This military service was only 40 days a year,however.This meant medieval armies were a hotchpotch of irregular,often untrained and differently equipped soldiers that would disband after 40 days,making it difficult for kings to assemble large armies for long enough to achieve long lasting results. The Hundred Years War (which actually lasted from 1336 – 1457) called for something better,so the English developed a system of direct contract between the King and any knight or noble who had the influence,wealth or ability to raise a force of given size for foreign operations – these contracted forces were thus under military control of the king rather than their feudal ov
