Why did English never recover their continental possesions? Did they fear the continental warrior?

Why did English never recover their continental possesions? Did they fear the continental warrior?

Yes that is why they hide on an island.

France was always the stronger power. The English only gained (most of) their continental possessions through marriage. Look at the whole situation as two sides of France fighting an extended civil war. One side just had sheep herders in England funding things :^)

And they were vassals to the kings of France due to their holdings in the continent, the English king having to pay homage and tribute for their holdings in France.

They fear the continental philosophers ffs, of course thry fear the continental warrior.

The Angevins were French.

Do people have some weird sort of impression that the King of England came to the continent and conquered that large chunk of France?

Because it was actually the French duke who ruled that chunk of France who became King of England.

>Dynastic entities were nationalistic entities.
Lmao.

Losing it was probably the best thing that ever happened to them

brits are so pathetic kek

>French nation-state
>Medieval ages
Someone here is dense.

>Brits
>Pathetic
How about we stop this already

>mfw the Frengland's motto is a French motto

I feel sad for the brits, the French don't even bother to hide their domination

Can anybody give me the quick rundown on how the Angevins managed to lose their continental lordships to the Capetians?

Because these were not "England possessions" but rather the original lands of the family that ruled England

Pic related, they acquired England last

The French attacked when the Angevins were busy with other things

Google John Lackland.

King John a shit.

The Angevins realized that they fought their French brothers and that it was better to enslave the lowly britons than to spill the blood of their kinsmen

>it's fine for the french to speak a romance language imposed by a subjugating power but not for the english whose ancestors include french-speaking normans
what did the man with severe learning difficulties mean by this

>english people, a people of Anglo-Saxon origin
>whose ancestors include french-speaking normans

Pick one

Norman British are distinct people and don't consider themselves as English but as French

you don't know anything about britain or its inhabitants, do you

Bigger question: How did the English lose against France in the first place? With all these lands you would've thought they'd wipe the floor with the French.