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	Angevin Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Angevin Empire is a term applied to the lands of Henry II of England, consisting of at their largest extent, the Kingdom of England and duchies / counties of Normandy, Anjou, Poitou, Maine, Gascony, Touraine, Béarn and Aquitaine; with Brittany, Wales, Toulouse, Scotland and Ireland held in vassalage to some degree.
		The fall of the Angevin Empire can be traced to the capture and ransoming of Richard I by Leopold V of Austria and Henry VI of Germany.
		The true end of the Empire could be see in 1214 when the Barons of England offered the crown to Louis VI of France, thus confirming the supremacy of France.
	angevin-empire.iqnaut.net (605 words)

	The Age of Chivalry - Angevin Empire 1144-1204 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		At its height under King Henry II of England, the Angevin Empire spanned from the Scottish borders in the north of Britain to the Pyrenees on the Iberian border in the southwest of France.
		But this empire had no coherent structure and, save for Gascony, was mostly lost to the French during the reign of King John between 1199 and 1216.
		The Angevin Empire was probably more impressive on the map than in reality and lacked both unity and purpose.
	www.taoc.co.uk /content/view/27/45 (2074 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Angevin
		Angevin ANGEVIN [Angevin] [Frof Anjou], name of two medieval dynasties originating in France.
		He was the founder of the Angevin, or Plantagenet, line in England and one of the ablest and most remarkable of the English kings.
		The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgan: Secretarial Administration in a Welsh Marcher Barony, c.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Angevin&StartAt=11 (582 words)

	genesta
		The two provinces of the Empire that survived the Capetian attacks were England and Aquitaine, those parts the Plantagenet never paid specifically homage for and were thus not subject to the French king.
		The Angevins kept a good relationship with the Guelfs and supported Otto IV in his claims to the throne, which failed after he took part in the battle of Bouvines.
		The fall of the Angevin Empire was mainly due to 1) the extremely high costs the defence of the dominions involved and 2) a continuing disengagement on baronial level.
	homepages.internet.lu /pitpeporte/genesta.htm (3073 words)

	Angevin - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		ANGEVIN [Angevin] [Fr.,=of Anjou], name of two medieval dynasties originating in France.
		A nephew of Richard I and John became (1196) duke of Brittany as Arthur I. From his sister and her husband, Peter of Dreux, a Capetian noble who became Duke Peter I of Brittany, the subsequent rulers of Brittany issued.
		Charles I's son became king of Hungary and Poland as Louis I. Hungary passed to Louis's daughter Mary and to her husband Sigismund (later Holy Roman emperor), and Poland passed to Ladislaus II of Poland, husband of Louis's daughter Jadwiga.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Angevin.html (738 words)

	Angevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		'''Angevin''' is the name applied to two distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (''see Angevin Empire).
		The first Angevin dynasty, known from the 12th century as the Plantagenet dynasty, came (with its Lancastrian and Yorkist branches) to rule England (1154-1485), Normandy (1144-1204, 1346-1360 and 1415-1450), and Gascony and Guyenne (1153-1453), but lost Anjou itself to the French crown in 1206.
		The second Angevin dynasty, known also as the house of Capet-Anjou, began with Charles, created count (from 1360 the family were dukes) of the western French province of Anjou by his elder brother King Louis IX of France in 1246; they were members of the French ruling house of Capet.
	angevin.iqnaut.net (515 words)

	Abbey of Fontrevraud
		For in its size and in the culture of its sovereigns, the Angevin Empire was a French empire.
		This explains why the Angevin rulers of that empire, though enjoying the dignity as monarchs of England, spent their lives and most active years in France -- where they died and were buried.
		With Henry II and his queen, Eleanor, there began the short line of 'Angevin' English kings, but their Angevin realm was much larger that the English kingdom, and arguably earns the description as the 'Angevin Empire'.
	xenophongroup.com /montjoie/fontevra.htm (2290 words)

	Medieval World - Angevin Kings of England during the period 1154-1199
		This was, however, undermined by the internal and external struggles over power which made the Angevin period inherently unstable, until the death of Richard I in 1199 precipitated the breakup of the Empire.
		The term "Angevin Empire" refers to the lands held by the family of the counts of Anjou.
		The personalities of the Angevin rulers thus carry more significance in determining the stability of Angevin rule than might be the case in later eras.
	medieval.etrusia.co.uk /angevin.php (1422 words)

	Angevin Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Angevin Empire is a modern term applied retrospectively to the lands of the Plantagenets: Henry II, Richard I and John Lackland.
		In theory, the Angevin Empire was comprised of the lands of England, Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Tours, Poitiers, Saintonge, Limousin, Guyenne and Gascony.
		From an Angevin point of view, for the son of a count marrying the daughter of a king and the widow of an emperor was a political triumph but from a Norman point of view things weren't so fine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angevin_Empire (7489 words)

	British Empire -- Recommendations and Resources
		The British Empire was the world's first global power and history's largest Empire; by 1921, it held sway over a population of 500–600 million people — roughly a quarter of the world's population — and covered about 15.1 million square miles (nearly 37 million square kilometres), roughly 35% of the world's total land area.
		The zenith of the empire was during the mid 19th century when, as the world's sole developed superpower, Britain enjoyed unparalleled prosperity.
		The Empire didn't control the eastern seaboard of North America when it was at its height for instance, although the map seems to show that it does.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-empire.html (977 words)

	Sicilian Peoples: The Angevins - Best of Sicily Magazine - Angevins in Sicilian History
		The term "Angevin" refers to both the "Plantagenet" dynasty of England from 1154 to 1399 (descendants of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, and Matilda, daughter of Henry I) and the dynasty that ruled southern Italy from Naples beginning in the thirteenth century.
		In the time of Frederick II and the Swabian rule of Sicily, France was ruled by the Capetians (so-called for their descent from Hugh Capet).
		From this death was Italy's Angevin period born, in a dynastic change representing the ultimate form of papal hegemony.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art177.htm (1523 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Angevins
		The first Angevin King, Henry II, began the period as arguably the most powerful monarch in Europe, with lands stretching from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees.
		This was taken to an extreme by his son Richard, who spent only 10 months of a ten-year reign in the country due to his involvement in the crusades.
		The last of the Angevin kings was John, whom history has judged harshly.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page60.asp (313 words)

	Henri II's Angevin Empire
		However, this 'empire' had considerable limits, much as did the German Empire which lay to the east of the small, French kingdom emerging between the two so-called 'empires'.
		The formation of this 'Angevin Empire' is explained at a webpage on the Angevin dynasties [link to which is given at the bottom of this page].
		This dismemberment of the remarkable Angevin Empire is covered in more detail in webpages on the War of Bouvines (1202-1214), the Saintonge War (1242), the Battle of Castillon (1453).
	xenophongroup.com /montjoie/angevine.htm (651 words)

	Angevin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1350s, a junior branch of the Capet-Anjou was originated when King John II of France, of Valois line of Capetians, whose grandmother had been a princess of the senior Angevin line (eldest daughter of King Charles II of Naples), gave the County, and then Duchy of Anjou to his second son, Louis.
		Thus, in addition to the struggle of the Angevins with the Aragonese in Southern Italy, the two Angevin lines now began to contest with each other for the possession of the Kingdom of Naples.
		The extinction of the line of Anjou-Durazzo in 1435 temporarily secured Naples for the Valois-Anjou, but they were driven from Naples by Alfonso V of Aragon in 1442.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angevin (1051 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Angevin
		Her second husband, James of Bourbon, tried to seize power but was imprisoned in 1416.
		Threatened (1420) by the Angevin claimant to Naples, Louis
		Situated on the edge of the Conca d'Oro (Golden Conch Shell), a beautiful and fertile plain, it is Sicily's largest city and chief seaport.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Angevin&StartAt=11 (594 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Henry is the first of the "Angevin" or "Plantagenet" dynasty: Angevin is derived from Anjou, and the name Plantagenet came from the broom plant, which was Henry's father's badge or symbol.
		This territory, with England added in, is often called the Angevin Empire by modern historians (no one called it that in the 12th century).
		The third part of Henry's empire was his wife's great principality, the duchy of Aquitaine (also known in part as Gascony).
	the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/henry_ii.html (2621 words)

	The Age of Chivalry - Empires and Kingdoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The eastern portion of the mighty Roman Empire lived on for another 1000 years after the fall of the west.
		It was in an almost constant state of war for its entire existence before finally being conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.
		The Empire of Nicaea was the most powerful of the Byzantine successor states to emerge after the Fourth Crusade.
	www.taoc.co.uk /content/blogcategory/70/45 (228 words)

	Medieval Europe \| Chapter Timeline
		This "Angevin Empire" was much more extensive than the area controlled by the King of France, Henry's nominal overlord for the French territories.
		Although the Byzantines regained the city in 1261, the Byzantine Empire was reduced to a series of territories that could not resist the attacks of the Turks.
		By using his wealth, his diplomatic skills, and where necessary military power, he was able to dislodge the Angevin family from much of their territory and began the piecemeal process whereby France was brought under the actual control of the French king.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072346574/student_view0/part2/chapter12/chapter_timeline.html (1297 words)

	Brittany and the Angevins - Cambridge University Press
		The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterized usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institutions.
		This study, the first on the subject of Brittany under the Angevins, demonstrates that the opposite is true: that before the advent of Henry II in 1158, the Bretons were already active participants in Anglo-Norman and French society.
		Duke Geoffrey, Henry II and the Angevin empire; 6.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052102692X (375 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sicilian Vespers (Italian History) - Encyclopedia
		Although basically a move for Sicilian independence, the insurrection was instigated as part of a widespread conspiracy against the Angevin ruler of Naples and Sicily, King Charles I, who dreamed of establishing an Angevin empire in the East.
		Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII financed the plot, hoping to preoccupy Charles and thus avert the Angevin's imminent invasion of the Byzantine Empire.
		John of Procida, a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen, and King Peter III of AragOn, who claimed rule of the island as the husband of Constance, heiress of the Hohenstaufen claim there, also joined the intrigue.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sicilian.html (346 words)

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