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The new king of France, Charles V., resumed the war against England in 1369 and liberated some of the occupied french territories. After his death, he was succeeded by his son Charles VI., who later suffered of a mental disease. In 1396 both parties formed a ceasefire agreement that lasted 28 years.
In 1412, briefly before the hundred-year war broke out again, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, a small village in Lorraine.
Henry V. restarted the war against France in 1415 and destroyed the french army at Agincourt. The Burgundians intervened in the war on the side of the English (1416) and recognized Henry V. as the legitimate french king. The english army conquered the entire Normandy (1417). Paris was invaded by the Burdungians. The only sixteen year old Dauphin1 escaped from the city, but his mother, queen Isabeau, and the mad king Charles V., went over to the Burgundians. In the treaty of Troyes (1420) Charles VI. declared his son, the Dauphin, as illegitimate which excluded him from succession. Two years later, Charles VI. died, as well as the king of England, Henry V.
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