• Anjou was a 1,642 gross register tons (GRT), French steel barque built in 1899. It was wrecked in the Auckland Islands in 1905. Anjou was sailing from...
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  • blanc Anjou wine, a wine region in the Loire Valley D'Anjou or Anjou pear Anjou (ship), wrecked in 1905 Angevin (disambiguation), meaning "of Anjou" Anjo...
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    Melisende, from 1131 until his death in 1143. Previously, he was Count of Anjou, as Fulk V, from 1109 to 1129. During Fulk's reign, the Kingdom of Jerusalem...
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    The County of Anjou (UK: /ˈɒ̃ʒuː, ˈæ̃ʒuː/, US: /ɒ̃ˈʒuː, ˈæn(d)ʒuː, ˈɑːnʒuː/; French: [ɑ̃ʒu]; Latin: Andegavia) was a French county that was the predecessor...
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  • Matilda of Anjou, also known as Mahaut (c. 1111 – 1154) was married in 1119 to William Adelin, son and heir apparent of Henry I of England. Matilda was...
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    Anjou (Russian: Пётр Фёдорович Анжу; 15 February 1796 – 12 October 1869) was an Arctic explorer and an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. Anjou's grandfather...
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    the Black (c. 970–1040; Old French: Foulque Nerra) was an early Count of Anjou celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. It is...
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    Matilda was also unpopular because she was married to Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, a traditional enemy of England's Norman nobles. Upon Henry's death in 1135...
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    William Adelin (category Deaths on the White Ship)
    the loyalty of Anjou, a long-time rival of Normandy, Henry betrothed William to Matilda of Anjou, eldest daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou in February 1113...
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  • which has somehow become frozen atop a huge iceberg. When the crew of L´Anjou board the Loafer they find its frozen captain in the cabin, mysteriously...
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    called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence...
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    regions. Philip was born into the French royal family (as Philippe, Duke of Anjou) during the reign of his grandfather Louis XIV. He was the second son of...
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    Hélène of Anjou (Italian: Elena d'Angiò), (died in 1342 in Naples) was a member of the House of Anjou. She was an illegitimate daughter of Robert, King...
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    entire empire to the Dauphin's second son Philip, Duke of Anjou, provided it remained undivided. Anjou was not in the direct line of French succession, thus...
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    water between Guadalcanal and Florida Island, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the Guadalcanal Campaign in 1942–43. "USS...
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    and Forcalquier (1285–1309), Prince of Achaea (1285–1289), and Count of Anjou and Maine (1285–1290); he also was King of Albania (1285–1294), and claimed...
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    House of Plantagenet (category House of Anjou)
    County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the...
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    Empress Matilda (category Countesses of Anjou)
    Matilda, which would have cemented an alliance between Henry and Anjou, but the White Ship disaster put an end to this. Henry and Fulk argued over the fate...
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    to Geoffrey of Anjou. The relationship between Henry and the couple became strained, and fighting broke out along the border with Anjou. Henry died on...
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    alliance with Anjou by marrying his only legitimate son, William, to Fulk the Younger's daughter, Matilda. However, William died in the White Ship disaster...
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    Galiot (redirect from Goleta (ship))
    with a simple sail that traveled French rivers transporting wine in the Anjou region as far as Les Ponts-de-Cé. Flatboat Warship Chaika (boat) Carse (1959)...
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    d'Espagne he was considered to be Jacques I, but often referred to as Duke of Anjou. Jaime retired from the Russian army and henceforward lived mostly at Schloss...
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  • Eremburga of Maine (category Countesses of Anjou)
    Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154), married in 1119 to William Adelin, the son and heir to Henry I of England. After his death in the White Ship disaster of...
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    Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup,...
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    rebels, and the Empress Matilda's husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. In 1138, the Empress's half-brother Robert of Gloucester rebelled against...
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    The Hotchkiss Anjou was a luxury car offered between 1950 and 1954 by the French automaker Automobiles Hotchkiss. It was an updated version of the 486...
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    Icebreaker (redirect from Icebreaker (ship))
    special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the...
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    British East India Company, launched before 1602. It was one of the three ships (along with Susan Constant and Godspeed) on the 1606–1607 voyage to the...
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    White Ship disaster of 1120. This ended the direct Norman line of kings in England. Henry named his eldest daughter, Matilda (Countess of Anjou by her...
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    Richard I of England (category Counts of Anjou)
    of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during...
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