In spite of a French military victory on the ground, the war ended when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1303, which restored the status quo.

[2] King Philip IV continued to strengthen his suzerainty over the feudal fiefs, regularly taking advantage of ability to allow Gascons to appeal English law at the French court.

[6] Edward I sent his younger brother Edmund of Lancaster and Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, to negotiate a truce with the French King.

A settlement was reached between Edward I and Philip IV, allowing the temporary French occupations of the English controlled fortified towns and castles.

The English were delayed in sending an army to Gascony, due to a revolt in Wales by Madog ap Llywelyn.

[9] The English army was finally able to leave Portsmouth on 9 October 1294, raiding Pointe Saint-Mathieu and Île de Ré.

Philip IV sent his brother Charles of Valois, the Marshal of France, Guy I of Clermont and the Constable of France, Raoul II of Clermont into Aquitaine and Gascony at the head of a large army that won back most of the English conquests in the Garonne valley.

The English offensive was halted and the French army retook Podensac and then Saint-Sever in June 1295 after 13 weeks of siege.

Charles de Valois left command of the French army to Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix.

[10][11] An English relief force was mustered in England, however was delayed from sailing due to a revolt in Scotland in 1295, finally leaving on 4 January 1296 from Plymouth.

The army was commanded by Edward I's brother Edmond of Lancaster and Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln.

Staying at Bourg and Blaye, the English army was joined by many Gascons, swelling Edmund's forces to more than two thousand men-at-arms.

Edward I was faced with military failures in Gascony, Scotland and Flanders and together with internal disputes in England about the costly wars and that the English barons had little motivation for a war on the Continent, Edward I and sought a truce with Philip IV, through mediation via Pope Boniface VIII, which was signed on 9 October 1297.