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What Was the Total Death Toll of the Hundred Years War?

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Jonathan Sumption's multi volume scholarly history covers the war's campaigns in detail, and named battle losses are documented, thousands of French dead at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt among them, but no historian's synthesis totals combat deaths together with the compounding effects of famine and the Black Death across the war's hundred and sixteen year span into one figure. Totals near two to three million, or as high as five million, circulate widely but trace to popular compilations rather than a named historian's stated methodology.

What would resolve this A named historian's stated total distinguishing direct battle deaths from indirect famine and plague mortality across the war's full span, comparable to the demographic methods used for other wars this atlas records. No such study was located; only unattributed aggregator totals circulate.
OpenLate medieval English and French military and demographic history.Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, Volume I: Trial by Battle
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The Hundred Years War, Volume I: Trial by Battle
Jonathan Sumption, Faber and Faber, 1990
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