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House of Plantagenet - King Henry III. King of England from 1216, when he succeeded John, but the royal powers were exercised by a regency until 1232, and by two French nobles, Peter des Roches and Peter des Rivaux, until the barons forced their expulsion in 1234, marking the start of Henry's personal rule.
About this group. Descendants of the Plantagenet Dynasty And Their Loyal Supporters- This is a group of relatives and friends sharing an interest in All things Ricardian, The Plantagenets; which consists of 1.The House of York, 2.The House of Lancaster, and 3.The House of Tudor, along with their Stewart/Stuart Cousins.
The Start of the Plantagenet Period (1154) The Plantagenet Period began with the descendants of Count Geoffrey of Anjou and Empress Matilda. Their son and heir, Henry II, became a powerful monarch ruling over England, Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine. Henry II became the King of England in 1154, marking the formal beginning of the House of ...
Reigning Period (1154 – 1216) The Angevin kings ruled over France from 1154 to 1216. The House of Anjou furnished three kings of England, namely Henry II, Richard II, and John. King John lost Anjou, the homeland which gave the house its name. For this reason, the subsequent heirs of King John who ascended to the throne are considered ...
The House of Normandy ( Norman: Maison de Nouormandie [mɛ.zɔ̃ d̪e nɔʁ.mɛnde]) designates the noble family which originates from the Duchy of Normandy and whose members were dukes of Normandy, counts of Rouen, as well as kings of England following the Norman conquest of England.
The House of Plantagenet was the first truly armigerous royal dynasty of England. Their predecessor, Henry I of England, had presented items decorated with a lion heraldic emblem to his son-in-law, Plantagenet founder Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, and his family experimented with different lion-bearing coats until these coalesced during the reign of his grandson, Richard I (1189–1199), into a ...
The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses – the Angevins who were also Counts of Anjou, the main body of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou, and the houses of Lancaster and York, the Plantagenets' two cadet branches.
