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The claim was thin, and the English knew it...it's not like anyone thought of the south of france as Britain. they just thought they could get away with claiming it.
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Um... Might want to review your history. It was inherited when Henry I (I think, could have been the II) married Elanore of Aquitain. They already ruled Normandy, thus they owned everything basically from Normandy to the South border of Spain.
During a dispute with the King of France their land was "revolked". This was illegal in the French system, and England was more powerful than France at the time so had no military means of supporting it. So war was on.