On the other side, Charles VI was suffering from a mental illness that handicapped the furthering of the war by the French government.

Other provisions were agreed to, in attempts to bring an end to the Papal schism, to launch a joint crusade against the Turks in the Balkans, to seal the marriage of Richard to Charles' daughter Isabella along with an 800,000 franc dowry, and to guarantee to continue peace negotiations, to establish a lasting treaty between the kingdoms.

The treaty brought peace to the Iberian Peninsula, where Portugal and Castile were supporting the English and French respectively.

During the years following the truce, Richard reneged on his agreement to assist in ending the schism, leading the French to unilaterally withdraw from the obedience of either pope and seize Avignon by military force.

In England, Richard used the lapse in fighting to attack his political enemies and confiscate their lands, which he redistributed as rewards to his supporters.

He then left for Ireland to put down a revolt among the Irish chieftains, but during his absence a number of his exiled opponents returned, led by his cousin Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster.

The French initially interpreted events in England as a repudiation of the truce and raised an army and put garrisons in place on the fronts.

For nearly two decades, the French pursued a military policy of avoiding direct battle with the English armies and wearing them down by attrition.

Although the English won a few victories, eventually almost all of their gains from the earlier phases of the war were lost, including all of the Duchy of Aquitaine except for a narrow coastal strip from Bordeaux to the border of Navarre.

King Richard II, favoured making peace because the English parliament refused to grant sufficient funds to prosecute the war, the population had twice risen in revolt of the high taxation, and the nobility, led by his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, was attempting to subvert his control over the kingdom.

[2] The Kingdom of Aragon, several counties of the low countries, and the Duchy of Brittany had already made peace and became neutral in the conflict.

The Holy Roman Empire nominally supported the English position but had remained neutral in the conflict.

The Parliament also refused to pass a significant tax increase to continue funding the stalled war.

[5] Richard decided to enact a de facto peace with the French and use the interim to punish his political enemies.

Richard failed to send support for the crusade against the Turks; the French contingent, which contained many of France's prominent fighters, was annihilated at the Battle of Nicopolis in September 1396.

After the death of John of Gaunt in 1399, Richard seized his duchy from his exiled son, Henry of Bolingbroke.

He quickly raised an army among the rest of the disaffected nobility and took control of most of England without force before Richard could return.

[10] When Henry took the throne in England, the French initially interpreted it as a repudiation of the truce and raised an army and strengthened their garrisons on their borders.