This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of France from 987 until the abolition of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792.
*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, Latin: [[status quo ante bellum]], result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reconquista (722–1492) Location: Iberia |
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| Christian victory | |
| First Crusade (1096–1099)Location: Mostly Levant and Anatolia |
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| Crusader Victory | |
| Crusade of 1101Location: Anatolia | Rum victory | |||
| Anglo-French War 1109–13Location: Normandy | Kingdom of France | Truce | ||
| Anglo-French War 1116–19Location: Normandy | Anglo-Norman Victory | |||
| Anglo-French War 1123–1135Location: France | Rebellion in Maine suppressed by Anglo-Normans, French remain in a strong position, Henry I dies. The White Ship incident opens succession question and the Anarchy begins before conclusive result | |||
| Second Crusade (1147–1150)Location: Iberia, Levant and Anatolia |
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| Mixed results
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| Anglo-French War 1158–1189Location: France |
| Kingdom of England | Revolt of 1173-74 defeated, Richards revolt successful in 1189 with the help of Philip II and French forces, Treaty of Azay-le-Rideau, Prince Richard becomes king of England at expense of Henry II following the battle of Ballans | |
| Anglo-French War 1193–1199Location: France | Kingdom of France | Kingdom of England | Truce at Vernon | |
| Third Crusade (1189–1192)Location: Levant and Anatolia |
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---- | Crusader Victory | |
| Fourth Crusade (1202–04)Location: Holy Land and Byzantine Empire | In Europe:
Holy Land: | Division of Byzantine Empire | ||
| French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204)Location: Normandy | Kingdom of France | Kingdom of England | French Victory, Normandy, Anjou and Maine annexed by France | |
| Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229)Location: Languedoc, France | Crusade
County of Aurenja |
| Crusader Victory | |
| Anglo-French War (1213-14) | Kingdom of France | Angevin Empire | French Victory, Collapse of Angevin Empire | |
| First Barons War (1215–17)Location: England | Army of God and Holy Church Kingdom of France | Pro-Angevin forces | French Invasion Defeat | |
| Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)Location: Egypt and Levant |
| Ayyubids | Crusader Defeat | |
| Poitou War (1224)Location: Poitou | France | England | French Victory | |
| English invasion of France (1230) (1230)Location: Brittany and Western France | France | England | English Withdrawal | |
| Barons' Crusade (1239–1241)Location: Levant | Ayyubids | Crusader Diplomatic Victory | ||
| Saintonge War (1242–1243) Location: Saintonge | France | England | French Victory | |
| Seventh Crusade (1248–1254)Location: Egypt | Kingdom of France | Ayyubids | Crusader Defeat | |
| Eighth Crusade (1270)Location: Tunisia | Hafsid dynasty | Inconclusive, Death of King Louis IX | ||
| War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302) | Angevin Kingdom of Naples Kingdom of France Kingdom of Majorca | Crown of Aragon Kingdom of Trinacria | Division of the kingdom of Sicily into Aragonese Trinacria and Angevin Naples, Aragonese Crusade defeated | |
| Gascon War (1294–1303)Location: Southwestern France | France | England | Treaty of Paris French occupation of Aquitaine ended with royal marriages. Aquitaine becomes a fief of France. | |
| Franco-Flemish War (1297–1305)Location: Flanders | France | County of Flanders | French Victory | |
| Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–1328 (1323–1328) Location: Flanders | Kingdom of France Flemish count and loyalists | Flemish rebels | French Victory | |
| War of Saint-Sardos (1324)Location: Aquitaine | France | England | French Victory | |
| Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) Location: France, England, Spain, Scotland and Low Countries | France Burgundian State (1337–1419 and 1435–53) Kingdom of Scotland Crown of Castile Republic of Genoa Kingdom of Bohemia Crown of Aragon Avignon Papacy | Kingdom of England Burgundian State (1419–35) Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Navarre Ghent Rebels Papal States | French Victory | |
| Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) Location: England | House of Lancaster House of Tudor France Kingdom of Scotland | House of York Burgundian State | Victory and beginning of the Tudor dynasty | |
| Castilian Civil War (1351–1369) Location: Spain | Forces of Henry of Trastámara Kingdom of France Crown of Aragon | Forces of Peter of Castile Kingdom of England Kingdom of Navarre Kingdom of Majorca Kingdom of Granada | Victory for Henry of Trastámara | |
| Barbary Crusade (1390)Location: Tunisia | Kingdom of France Republic of Genoa | Hafsids Zianids Bejaia | Truce negotiated, Both sides claim victory | |
| Nicopolis Crusade (1396) Location: Nicopolis | Crusade: Holy Roman Empire
Principality of Wallachia[2] | Ottoman Empire | Defeat | |
| Old Zurich War (1440–1446) Location: Swiss plateau | Imperial City of Zurich Habsburg Further Austria France |  Switzerland
| Peace of Einsiedeln | |
| Milanese War of Succession (1447–54)Location: Italy | House of Sforza Duchy of Milan (1450–4) Republic of Florence (1452–4) Kingdom of France (1452–4) | Republic of Venice Margravate of Mantua---- Ambrosian Republic (1447–50) Duchy of Savoy | Francesco Sforza recognised as Duke of Milan | |
| War of the Burgundian Succession (1477–1482)Location: France, Low Countries | Valois-Orléans | Burgundy-Habsburg | France annexes several Burgundian territories, Maximilian I retains the Netherlands, the County of Burgundy, Artois and Charolais. | |
| Catalan Civil War (1462–1472)Location: Catalonia | John II of Aragon France | Principality of Catalonia rebels | John reestablished as King | |
| War of the Castilian Succession (1475–1479)Location: Spain |
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| Isabella is recognised as Queen of Castile in exchange for Ferdinand breaking alliance with Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy | |
| French-Breton War (1487–1491) Location: Duchy of Brittany | Kingdom of France | Duchy of Brittany Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of England Kingdom of Castile and León | French Victory, Anne of Brittany marries Charles VIII of France | |
| First Italian War (1494–1498)Location: Italy |
Duchy of Milan (before 1495) | 1494: 1495: League of Venice Kingdoms of Spain Duchy of Milan (1496–98) Duchy of Mantua | Victory for the League of Venice | |
| Second Italian War (1499–1501) Location: Italy | Spain Marquisate of Saluzzo | Duchy of Milan | France conquers the Duchy of Milan | |
| Third Italian War (1502–1504)Location: Italy | Spain | Spanish victory, France cedes Naples | ||
| War of the League of Cambrai (1508–1516) | 1508–1510: League of Cambrai:
1510–1511: 1511–1513:1513–1516: | 1508–1510: 1510–1511: 1511–1513: Holy League: 1513–1516: | French and Venetian Victory | |
| Italian War of 1521–1526
Location: France, Italy and Spain |
|  Spain(1521–1523 and 1525–1526) | Habsburg victory, capture of Francois I | |
| War of the League of Cognac (1526–30)Location: Italy |
| Spain Duchy of Ferrara (1528–1530) Duchy of Mantua (1528–1530) | Habsburg Victory | |
| Italian War of 1536–1538Location: Provence, Piedmont and Lombardy | Truce of Nice, Savoy and Piedmont acquired by France | |||
| Italian War of 1542–1546Location: England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Low Countries | Treaty of Crépy and Treaty of Ardres | |||
| Rough Wooing (1542–1551)Location: Northern England and Scotland | Scottish and French Victory | |||
| Italian War of 1551–1559Location: France, Flanders, Italy and the Mediterranean | Spanish-Imperial Victory | |||
| Anglo-French War (1557–1559) Location: Pale of Calais | Kingdom of France | French Victory | ||
| French Wars of Religion (1562–1628)
Location: France | ---- | Edict of Nantes 1598, Edict of Fontainebleau 1685 revokes treaty of Nantes | ||
| English expedition to France (1562-1563) Location: Le Havre, Dieppe | Kingdom of France | , Huguenots (Before Edict of Amboise) | Elizabeth I accepts French rule over Pale of Calais | |
| War of the Portuguese Succession (1580–1583)Location: Portugal, Atlantic Ocean, and the Azores Islands | Pro-Crato Portugal Supported by: | Spain Pro-Philip Portugal | Spanish victory, Philip II of Spain crowned king of Portugal, Iberian Union | |
| Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) (simultaneously supporting the Dutch Republic in the Eighty Years' War during 1596–98) Location: Western Europe | Kingdom of France England | Spain | French Victory | |
| Franco-Savoyard War (1600–1601) Location: Savoy | Kingdom of France | Duchy of Savoy | Treaty of Lyon (1601) | |
| War of the Jülich Succession (1609–10)Location: United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg | Margraviate of Brandenburg Palatinate-Neuburg Protestant Union | Rudolph II Principality of Strasbourg Prince-Bishopric of Liège Catholic League | France did not participate when war resumed in 1614 | |
| Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628)Location: Algiers | Kingdom of France | Regency of Algiers | Defeat | |
| Valtellina War (1620–26)Location: Valtellina | The Three Leagues | Spain | Treaty of Monzon, France prevents complete Habsburg control of Valtellina | |
| First Savoyard-Genoese War (1625)Location: Genoa | Spain | Defeat | ||
| Anglo-French War (1627–1629) | Treaty of Susa, English withdraw support for Huguenots, status quo ante bellum in Canada | |||
| War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–31)Location: Northern Italy | Supporting the Duke of Nevers: | Supporting the Duke of Guastalla: Spain | Duke of Nevers is recognised as ruler of Mantua | |
| Thirty Years War (1618–1648)Location: Europe, primarily in Germany | Bohemia Sweden Palatinate Transylvania [5] Denmark–Norway Heilbronn League Hesse-Kassel Brandenburg-Prussia | Spanish Empire Electorate of Bavaria Catholic League (1618–1635) Supported by: | France annexes Décapole and Upper Alsace | |
| Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) (simultaneously supporting the Dutch Republic in the Eighty Years' War during 1635–48) Location: Northern France, Catalonia, Spanish Netherlands, Northern Italy, the Rhineland | Kingdom of France Dutch Republic (1635–48) (1654–59) Modena and Reggio (1647–49, 1655–59) (1635–37) Principality of Catalonia (1640–41) Catalan Republic (1641)----Co-belligerent: Kingdom of Portugal (1640–59) | Spanish Empire (incl. Spanish Netherlands) (1635–48) Modena and Reggio (1635–46) English Royalists (1657–59) | Treaty of the Pyrenees, Artois, Roussillon and Perpignan annexed by France | |
| Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668)Location: Portugal | Kingdom of Portugal | Portuguese and allied victory, end of the Iberian Union | ||
| War of Candia (1645–1669) Location: Cretan | Knights of Malta | Defeat
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| Savoyard–Waldensian wars (1655–1690)Location: Piedmont, Duchy of Savoy |
| Waldensian rebels | Status quo
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| Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664)
Location: Kingdom of Hungary | League of the Rhine | Peace of Vasvár | ||
| Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667)Location: Europe, Caribbean, North Sea and English Channel | Treaty of Breda | |||
| War of Devolution (1667–1668)Location: Spanish Netherlands, Franche-Comté, Northern Catalonia | Spanish Empire (incl. Spanish Netherlands)----Triple Alliance: | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668), France gains Armentières, Bergues, Charleroi, Kortrijk, Douai, Veurne, Lille, Oudenaarde and Tournai | ||
| Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678)Location: Low Countries, England, Alsace, Rhineland, Brandenburg, Sicily, France, North America, West Indies |
| Treaties of Nijmegen, France gains Franche-Comté | ||
| War of the Reunions (1683–1684)Location: Spanish Netherlands, Catalonia, Genoa | French Victory,
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| French conquest of Senegal (1659–1895)Location: Senegal | Waalo Kingdom Kingdom of Cayor Jolof Empire Baol Kingdom of Sine Saloum | French victory
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| French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685)Location: Chios, Tripoli and Tunis | France | French Victory | ||
| French-Algerian War 1681–88 (1681–88)Location: Algiers | France | Regency of Algiers | Peace treaty | |
| Siamese revolution of 1688 (1688)Location: Siam | Prasat Thong dynasty | Phetracha and various Siamese lords Supported by: | French defeat
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Nine Years' War
Location: Europe, Ireland, Asia, North America | Wabanaki Confederacy Jacobites | Grand Alliance
| Treaty of Ryswick | |
| French and Iroquois Wars (17th century)Location: Great Lakes region | Huron, Erie, Neutral, Odawa, Ojibwe, Mississaugas, Potawatomi, Algonquin, Shawnee, Wenro, Mahican, Innu, Abenaki, Miami, Illinois Confederation, other nations allied with France Supported by: | Haudenosaunee Supported by: | Military stalemate
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| War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) Location: Europe, North America, Asia, Africa | Holy Roman Empire
| Treaty of Utrecht, Treaty of Portsmouth
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| Chickasaw Wars (1721–1763)Location: Mississippi River | Choctaw Illini | Chickasaw | Chickasaw victory | |
| War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720)Location: Europe, North America | Austria | Spain | Allied victory | |
| Fox Wars (1712–1733)Location: Detroit | and Indigenous Allies | Fox Peoples | French victory | |
| War of the Polish Succession (1733–1735)Location: Poland, Rhineland, Italy | Treaty of Vienna, Bourbon territorial gains, France guaranteed Lorraine following death of Stanisław Leszczyński | |||
| War of Austrian Succession (1740–48)
Location: Europe, North America |
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Iroquois Confederacy ----Co-belligerents:
| Status quo | |
| Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)Location: Acadia and Nova Scotia | French defeat | |||
| Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
| French defeat | |||
| Larache expedition (1765)Location: Larache, Morocco | Morocco | French defeat | ||
| Anglo-French War (1778–1783) (1778–83) Location: English Channel, Atlantic Ocean, West Indies, North America, Straits of Gibraltar, Balearic Islands, East Indies | Spain United States----Co-belligerent: (1780–1784) | French victory
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| French conquest of Corsica (1768–1770)Location: Corsica | Corsican Republic | French victory | ||
| War of the First Coalition (1792–1797)Location: France, Central Europe, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, West Indies |
| Army of Condé (until 1795) (until 1797)
(until 1796) | French victory |
| Conflict | Supported by France | Opposed by France | Outcome | |
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| Byzantine–Norman wars (1040–1189)Location: Italy | Norman Sicily | Byzantine Empire | Norman victory | |
| Breton–Norman War (1064–1066)Location: Normandy and Brittany | Norman victory | |||
| Norman conquest of England (1066–1075)Location: England | Duchy of Normandy | Anglo-Saxon England | Norman conquest of England | |
| Loon War (1203–1206)Location: Low Countries | Ada and Louis II Loon Support by: France Staufen Flanders Brabant Limburg Utrecht Liège | William Holland Support by: England House of Welf | Military and long-term political victory for William
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Portugal