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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
any of the Plantagenet kings of England, especially those who were also counts of Anjou (Henry II, Richard I...
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World Encyclopedia
English royal dynasty named after King Henry II, son of the Count of Anjou (and grandson of Henry I
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
The Angevin empire took its name from the county of Anjou, which Henry II inherited from his father, Geoffrey. With Normandy, Aquitaine, and England in addition, and claims of suzerainty ...
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Anjou
A former province of western France, on the Loire. It was an English possession from 1154, when it was inherited by Henry II as count of Anjou, until 1204, when it was lost to France by King John; it ...
Geoffrey ‘Plantagenet’
(1113–51),count of Anjou (1129–51) and duke of Normandy (1144–51), became the husband of Henry I's designated heiress, the Empress Matilda, on 17 June 1128. His political ambitions seem always to ...
Henry II
(1133–89),king of England (1154–89). The first of the Plantagenet kings of England was one of the most successful of this country's monarchs. His achievements are the more remarkable since his ...
Henry III
King of England and lord of Ireland, b. 1 Oct. 1207, elder s. of John and Isabella; acc. 28 Oct. 1216; m. Eleanor, da. of Raymond Berenger IV, count of Provence, 20 Jan. 1236; issue: 3 s., Edward, ...
Hungary
Hungary is one of the more successful of the former communist countries that have now joined the EUHungary is divided into roughly two halves by the Danube, which cuts through the country from north ...
John
(1167–1216),king of England (1199–1216). As every schoolboy knows, John was a monster and a tyrant. It is a reputation with deep historical roots, culminating in the judgements of Victorian ...
Plantagenet
Name of the English royal dynasty which held the throne from the accession of Henry II in 1154 until the death of Richard III in 1485. The name comes from Latin planta genista ‘sprig of broom’, said ...
Richard I
(1157–99),king of England (1189–99). Richard has attracted legends in a way that bees are proverbially attracted to the honey‐pot. The process began in his own lifetime. Already, by 1199, the epithet ...
Sicilian Vespers
A massacre of French inhabitants of Sicily, which began near Palermo at the time of vespers on Easter Monday in 1282. The ensuing war resulted in the replacement of the unpopular French Angevin ...
