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    The Angevin kings of England (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; "from Anjou") were Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John, who ruled England from 1154 to 1216. With ancestral...
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    This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon...
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  • assemblage of territories in Britain and France ruled by the Angevin kings of England Angevin kings of Jerusalem, members of the House of Anjou who occupied...
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    The influence and power of the Angevin kings of England brought them into conflict with the kings of France of the House of Capet, to whom they also...
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    Rochelle as well as numerous cities in Languedoc, thus leaving the Angevin Kings of England with Gascony as their only remaining continental possession. Louis...
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    loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. As a result, a rivalry emerged between the French monarchs and the Angevins over control of the latter's territorial...
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  • Ermengarde and Count Geoffrey II of Gâtinais. Their agnatic descendants, who included the Angevin kings of England, continued to hold these titles and...
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  • William des Roches (category Christians of the Third Crusade)
    Seneschal of Anjou, of Maine and of Touraine. After serving the Angevin kings of England, in 1202 he changed his loyalty to King Philip II of France and...
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    first of the Angevin kings of England. Stephen was born in the County of Blois in central France as the fourth son of Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois,...
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    Norman Conquest of 1066 to the death of King John in 1216, England was governed by the Norman and Angevin dynasties. The Norman kings preserved and built...
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    Vexin (category Geography of Normandy)
    county of Vexin was a heavily contested border between the Angevin kings of England and Capetian France (see Capetian-Plantagenet rivalry). It was of particular...
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    known contemporary collective name for all of the territories under the rule of the Angevin Kings of England. This led to circumlocutions such as "our...
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  • Curtmantle (1151–1189), also king of England as Henry II, father of Richard Lionheart (1189–1199), also king of England Contested between Richard's nephew—Arthur...
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    lands, Pembroke fell out of favour with John.: 103–104  The conflict between the French monarchs and the Angevin kings of England continued through the 13th...
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    the ancient patrimony of the Angevin kings of England, to Philip in a peace settlement. This confirmed the collapse of the Angevin Empire. The disaster...
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    pledged loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. Their claims in France triggered the Hundred Years' War, in which the kingdom of France emerged victorious...
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    representing the region of Aquitaine (Guyenne). Angevin kings of England Armorial of Plantagenet Counts and dukes of Anjou Humphreys, Stephen (2024). "Rediscovering...
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    rest of his life. Most of Roger's public career was taken up in service to the Angevin kings of England. A good deal of his activity on behalf of Henry...
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    (2007). The Norman Exchequer Rolls of King John. in Church 2007 Norgate, Kate (1887). England Under the Angevin Kings. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan. OCLC 373944...
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    with the creation of the Angevin Empire, the Angevin kings of England controlled half of France and all of England, dwarfing the power of the French king...
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  • holdings outside of their traditional patrimony, their rule became more and more absentee. With the rule of Henry II of England, the office of seneschal had...
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  • Hollister, C. Warren; Keefe, Thomas K. (1973). "The Making of the Angevin Empire". Journal of British Studies. 12 (2 (May)): 1–25. doi:10.1086/385639....
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  • Alaouite dynasty Angevin dynasties House of Ingelger Angevin kings of England Capetian House of Anjou House of Valois-Anjou Artaxiad dynasty Cadet branch...
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    ancestor of one of the Angevin kings of England who would go on to form the House of Tudor from England and Wales. The House of Tudor would go on to create...
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    First Hundred Years' War (category 12th century in England)
    revolving around the dispute over the Angevin Empire. During the conflict, the continental possessions of the Kings of England were considered to be more important...
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    became the first of the Angevin kings of England in 1154 as Henry II. The Angevin kings ruled over what was later known as the Angevin Empire, which included...
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    six months, in England. Most of his reign was spent on Crusade, in captivity, or actively defending the French portions of the Angevin Empire. Though...
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  • the justiciar was often chief minister. When kings left England to oversee other parts of the Angevin Empire, the justiciar functioned as his viceroy...
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    and the news of the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin, diverted attention from the Franco-English war. The Angevin kings of England (the line of rulers to which...
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    later adopted by Angevin Kings of England and Kings of Hungary. From the moment of their coronation, the heirs were regarded as junior kings (rex iunior)...
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