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5 giorni fa · In the early 12th century, Geoffrey of Anjou married Empress Matilda, King Henry I's only surviving legitimate child and heir to the English throne from the House of Normandy.
6 giorni fa · The empire was established by Henry II of England, who succeeded his father Geoffrey as Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou (from the latter of which the term Angevin is derived).
17 giu 2024 · house of Plantagenet, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York. The royal line descended from the union between Geoffrey, count of Anjou (died 1151), and the empress Matilda, daughter of the English king Henry I.
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4 giorni fa · Upon her widowhood in the Holy Roman Empire, Matilda was recalled to Normandy by her father, who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou to form an alliance to protect his southern borders in France.
26 giu 2024 · A colour-coded political map of France during the twelfth century, indicating the early expansion of the Angevin Empire—i.e., the territorial possessions of the House of Plantagenet—from the time of Geoffrey V of Anjou (1113–1151).
4 giorni fa · He was to inherit vast lands. As heir to his mother and to Stephen he held England and Normandy; as heir to his father he held Anjou (hence Angevin), Maine, and Touraine; as heir to his brother Geoffrey he obtained Brittany; as husband of Eleanor, the divorced wife of Louis VII of France, he held Aquitaine, the major part of ...
29 giu 2024 · Though century-long rulers on England’s throne, the family known as Plantagenet had its beginnings in France with Count Geoffrey of Anjou, who by wearing a sprig of yellow broom blossom—planta genista— in his hat or helmet, became known as Geoffrey Plantagenet, ‘genêt’ being the French word for planta genista.
