[[Effects of the plague, warfare and changing climate on the population of eastern Normandy. Scholars have been able to recover detailed population on some parts of France. Largely from continuously kept church records. Matching this data with known historical events gives us a picture of how the population was effected. In this region, the population declined to 29% of it's 1314 peak by 1460.

Year Percent

1314 100

1347 97 Fall-off due to general decline in living standards

1357 70 A decade after the plague

1380 43 The wars and the second bout of plagye

1412 65

1425 34 Henry V's campaigns in the area

1434 43

1460 29 Final campaigns of the Hundred Years War

1494 50

1550 75



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