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3 days ago · The House of Plantagenet (/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 houses ...
- 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 noble...
- 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
1 day ago · "~ Martel" (Old French, "The Hammer"): Charles Martel of the Franks; Geoffrey II of Anjou; Geoffrey IV of Anjou "~ the Man": John II of Portugal (Spanish: Juan el Hombre, a nickname given to him by Isabella of Castile) "~ the Martyr": Edward the Martyr of England; King Charles I of England; Charles I of Portugal (Portuguese: o Martirizado ...
1 day ago · Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
- 29 May 1660 –, 6 February 1685
- Henrietta Maria of France
5 days ago · The House of Anjou (1267 CE – 1386 CE) In 1267 CE, the Angevin King of Sicily, Charles of the House of Anjou, successfully conquered Corfu. Upon securing control, he reorganized the island into four administrative regions: Gyrou, Orous, Mesis, and Lefkimi—names that endure in the region today.
5 days ago · Charles de Cossé, alias Maréchal de Brissac, comte de Brissac (1er, 1560), seigneur de Saint-Sauveur-la-Campagne (1561), né en 1507, décédé le 31 mars 1564, Paris (à l’âge de 57 ans), grand maître de l’artillerie (1547), maréchal de France (1550) et gouverneur du Piémont (1550-1559), lieutenant général de Picardie (1559), gouverneur de Paris (15...
3 days ago · Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (baptized Nov. 28, 1635, Niort, Poitou, France—died April 15, 1719, Saint-Cyr) was the second wife and untitled queen of King Louis XIV of France. She encouraged an atmosphere of dignity and piety at court and founded an educational institution for poor girls at Saint-Cyr (1686).
4 days ago · The message was the second announcement of a royal family cancer diagnosis in recent weeks. On February 5, Buckingham Palace published a statement that King Charles III had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer, unrelated to the treatment he had been receiving for an enlarged prostate.