The family is also called Angevin, because Henry on his father's side descended from the counts of Anjou in France. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
With panting steed and bloody spur, a noble Angevin. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
So, the crown went to the Angevin brat by default anyway. From Wordnik.com. [October 25th, A Medieval Date Which Will Live in Infamy.] Reference
CHARLES I (Angevin) king of Naples and of Sicily (126882). From Wordnik.com. [2. Sicily and Naples] Reference
In another he follows the funeral procession of his Angevin hero Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The appointed chronicler of the Angevin kings, Wace, translated it into. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
They rode in silence toward the advancing Angevin army of Count Charles. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The subjects of the Angevin kings also took part in the scientific movement. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Venice deserted the Angevin alliance and made a ten-year peace with the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [1282-1328] Reference
You've that fine-boned look through the face that some of the Angevin ladies have. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Next year, Bernard and David Bachrach will have a session on Angevin military history. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 Business Meeting] Reference
The final duel with John for, and the conquest of, the Angevin lands north of the Loire. From Wordnik.com. [1165-70] Reference
Anglo-French, Norman, Angevin, or Gascon; it is English; the nebula condenses into a star. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Angevin family, that had replaced a Norman family, which had expelled a family of usurping Saxons. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
For commercial reasons he favored France, but backed Ferrante of Naples against the Angevin claims. From Wordnik.com. [1405] Reference
Angevin kings once stood hereabouts, as this countryside was in their time the great forest of the White Hart. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Angevin monarchs would have shrugged their shoulders at the representation of a prince who did not speak French. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
There was no doubt of his popularity, whilst Matilda on the other hand injured her cause by marrying an Angevin. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Thatcham, once, by all accounts, a large and prosperous market town, but this was in the days of the Angevin kings. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
The patrons on whom such artists depend are becoming now as much English as French, or Norman, or Breton, or Angevin. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
His mother had made the same claim, and had been opposed because she was a woman and because her husband was an Angevin. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Although technically not in French territoryit belonged to the Angevin princes of NaplesFrench influence was very strong. From Wordnik.com. [e. The Papacy and Italy] Reference
Richard, in a pitiless war of vengeance, built Château Gaillard on the Seine and restored the Angevin power in northern France. From Wordnik.com. [1165-70] Reference
Until 1204, Jersey was part of the duchy of Normandy, until the fall of Rouen, which led to the splitting of the Angevin Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Historical GIPpage: Jersey 1204-2004] Reference
A project still nearer to his heart, which he cherished till near the end of his life, was to write a history of our Angevin kings. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
No one in Anjou heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily old cooper. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
John's vassals in southern France (preferring an absent Angevin to an encroaching Capetian) resisted Philip's advance south of the Loire. From Wordnik.com. [1194-99] Reference
A baronial revolt (148587) in Naples (supported by Innocent and, secretly, by Venice) led to a revival of the Angevin claims to Naples. From Wordnik.com. [1448] Reference
Duke John of Calabria, who commanded the whole Angevin party. From Wordnik.com. [The Borgias Celebrated Crimes] Reference
English within their own realm than the Norman and Angevin kings of. From Wordnik.com. [William the Conqueror] Reference
Normandy and Maine, which had received an Angevin garrison, was captured by the duke. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Normandy and of Aquitaine, but rather by using the Norman and Angevin styles side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine] Reference
Robert of Escalfoy had taken the Angevin side, and had defended his castle against the Duke. From Wordnik.com. [William the Conqueror] Reference
Angevin kings, who lived and died at Chinon, something happened which I cannot quite explain. From Wordnik.com. [In Château Land] Reference
But along the Loire these Angevin rulers meet us in river-bank and castle and bridge and town. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
Aquitaine also died, and the Angevin power was weakened by the division of Geoffrey's dominions between his nephews. From Wordnik.com. [William the Conqueror] Reference
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