Historical Figure MBTIThe Hundred Years' War
~1337 – 1453
The long Anglo-French war — Edward III and the Black Prince, the cautious Charles V who clawed France back, Henry V at Agincourt, and the peasant girl who turned the tide.
For more than a century England and France tore at each other in the longest war of the Middle Ages — and it opened as an English triumph. Edward III, claiming the French crown through his mother, unleashed his longbowmen at Crécy, and his son the Black Prince won Poitiers, where he captured the chivalrous French king John II himself. Beside Edward stood his beloved queen Philippa of Hainault and his ambitious son John of Gaunt, whose blood would one day seed the Wars of the Roses.
But France found a colder genius. Charles V the Wise, refusing the open battles that had ruined his country, clawed it back inch by inch through the patient attrition of his Breton constable, Bertrand du Guesclin. By the time the aged Edward sank into senility under his grasping mistress Alice Perrers, England held almost nothing of what it had conquered. The war would flare again under Henry V at Agincourt — and end, at last, with a peasant girl named Joan.
22 figures · sorted by birth year
Isabelle Romée
notableISFJ
Joan of Arc's devout mother, who fought 25 years and won the retrial that cleared her daughter — the steadfast ISFJ.
Gilles de Rais
infamousENTJ
Joan's brave comrade at Orléans who became one of history's worst child-murderers — a grandiose ENTJ turned monster.
La Hire
notableESTP
The profane, fearless captain who prayed his soldier's prayer and adored the Maid — the wild ESTP of the Jack of Hearts.
Jean de Dunois
notableESTJ
The 'Bastard of Orléans' who held the city, embraced Joan, and won France back — the loyal, capable ESTJ soldier.
Pierre Cauchon
notableESTJ
The pro-English bishop who rigged Joan of Arc's heresy trial for the see he never won — the careerist ESTJ functionary.
Yolande of Aragon
renownINTJ
The 'Queen of Four Kingdoms' who made Charles VII king and bankrolled Joan — the hidden INTJ matriarch-strategist.
Joan of Arc
iconicINFJ
The peasant girl whose visions crowned a king and turned a war, burned at 19 and made a saint — the luminous INFJ.
Charles VII
renownINFP
The disinherited, self-doubting Dauphin whom Joan crowned and who won France back — the INFP king who came good at last.
Charles VI
notableISFP
The gentle French king broken by madness — the 'glass king' whose delusion let England in; an ISFP lost to illness.
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
notableENTP
Henry V's brilliant, reckless brother who gave Oxford its library — the clever ENTP, dazzling of mind, ruinous of judgment.
John, Duke of Bedford
renownESTJ
Henry V's ablest brother, who held the conquest of France together by sheer competence — the dutiful ESTJ regent.
Owen Tudor
notableESFP
The Welsh courtier who tumbled into a queen's lap and founded the Tudors — the charming, doomed ESFP, beheaded at last.
Catherine of Valois
notableISFP
Henry V's queen who secretly wed a Welsh commoner for love — the ISFP whose heart founded the Tudor dynasty.
Henry V
iconicENTJ
The austere warrior-king who won Agincourt and was named heir to France — the ENTJ who bent two kingdoms to his design.
John II of France
notableESFJ
The chivalrous French king captured at Poitiers, who returned to prison for his word — the ESFJ ruled by his honor.
Bertrand du Guesclin
notableISTP
The ugly, low-born Breton who became France's greatest soldier by cold attrition — the ISTP hammer of Charles V.
Charles V
renownINTJ
The frail scholar-king who won France back by patient attrition — the INTJ strategist who outlasted the English.
Alice Perrers
notableESTP
The low-born mistress who plundered Edward III's dotage and meddled in his justice — the grasping, self-made ESTP.
John of Gaunt
renownENTJ
Edward III's mighty son who ruled England and seeded two royal dynasties — the ENTJ ancestor of Lancaster and Tudor.
Philippa of Hainault
notableESFJ
Edward III's beloved queen, who knelt to spare the Burghers of Calais — the warm ESFJ heart of a warrior's court.
Edward the Black Prince
renownESTP
The warrior-prince who won Crécy at 16 and captured a king at Poitiers, but died before the throne — the ESTP hero.
Edward III
iconicESTP
The charismatic warrior-king who began the Hundred Years' War and won Crécy — the ESTP showman of medieval kingship.
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