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Conferences on these matters held at Montreuil in 42 Origins and Objectives 1306 and Perigueux in 1311 brought no solution. Here we can see, perhaps, the development of 'national' stances. In France, kings were claiming the rule of aH their subjects, even those in the lordship of others. In 1314, for instance, Philip IV banned minting in Bordeaux unless it had royal as weH as ducallicence. (It is worth remembering that since the tenth century, only the king had the right to mint in England. ) In the same year the English parliament debated ways to oppose demands for homage.
In 1241 Poitou was vested in Alphonso, Louis IX's brother, to be held of the French crown. In 1242, southern Saintonge, the most north-westerly part of Aquitaine, fell to the French and was added to Alphonso's appanage. Two years later Henry In abandoned military efforts to recover the lost lands yet still clung to all the titles wh ich his father had held. The reasons why a negotiated settlement was reached between Henry In and Louis IX on 13 October 1259 are complex, and cannot be fully investigated here.
In their settlements with the Freneh (Paris, 31 Mareh 1327) and with the Seots (Northampton, 4 May 1328), English interests were saerificed for the sake of the stability of the new regime. In the midst of all this, on 1 February 1328, Charles IV, last of the direct li ne of Capetian kings of France, died. The English response to this can on1y be understood in the light of these other events. Isabel1a and Mortimer made a hasty and disadvantageous peaee with the Freneh. This was based on the settlement negotiated in 1325 but invo1ved an additional indemnity of 50,000 marks.