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3 days ago · The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French 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 main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
- House of Ingelger
The House of Ingelger (French: Ingelgeriens), also known as...
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the...
- Plantagenet (Disambiguation)
History. Angevin Empire, also referred to as the Plantagenet...
- House of Beaufort
The House of Beaufort (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t /) is an English...
- Angevin Kings of England
The Angevin kings of England (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ v ɪ n /; "from...
- Early Modern Britain
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great...
- English Throne
The Throne of England is the throne of the Monarch of...
- English Renaissance
The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of...
- The Anarchy
The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between...
- House of Ingelger
3 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
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4 days ago · Duchess of Berry: Anne 1477–1514 Duchess of Brittany: Charles VIII 1470–1498 King of France r. 1483–1498: Francis 1472–1473 Duke of Berry: Henry II 1503–1555 King of Navarre: Marguerite de Navarre 1492–1549: Eleanor of Austria 1498–1558: Francis I 1494–1547 King of France r. 1515–1547: Claude 1499–1524 Duchess of Brittany ...
5 days ago · Supporting religious institutions was of course what Capetian queens did, but it is clear that Blanche was an exceptionally energetic architectural patron. Although Grant is chiefly writing in this book as an historian and biographer, she is also an architectural historian who has as complete a grasp of medieval building practice as anyone living.
5 days ago · Price: £35.00. This is a fascinating and much-welcomed addition to the steadily increasing body of work on medieval queenship that has emerged with the development of this (still) fresh historical discipline over the last twenty years. Rooted in the research behind the author’s doctoral thesis – ‘English queenship, 1445–1503’ (York ...
5 days ago · Signature. Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [a] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor . Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old.
5 days ago · Gaston, duke d’Orléans (born April 25, 1608, Fontainebleau, Fr.—died Feb. 2, 1660, Blois) was a prince who readily lent his prestige to several unsuccessful conspiracies and revolts against the ministerial governments during the reign of his brother, King Louis XIII (ruled 1610–43), and the minority of his nephew, Louis XIV (ruled 1643 ...
