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  The Plantagenets - Broom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Geoffrey The Fair was the son of Fulk V. In 1128, Geoffrey the Fair, nicknamed Plantagenet because of the sprig of broom he wore in his cap, married the Empress Matilda.
The Plantagenet monarchs of England were kings of English and continental territories.
Plantagenet, a sprig of broom worn as a distinctive mark.
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 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
Stephen effectively reigned unopposed until his death in 1154, although his hold on the throne was still uneasy.
When Stephen's son and heir apparent Eustace died in 1153 Stephen reached an accommodation with Matilda which allowed her son, Henry of Anjou, (who became Henry II) to succeed Stephen and in which peace between them was guaranteed.
The Wars of the Roses culminated in the eventual victory of the relatively unknown Henry Tudor, Henry VII, at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where the Yorkist Richard III was slain, and the succession of the Lancastrian House was ultimately assured.
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 The Plantagenets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The crowning of Henry II, first of the Angevin kings, in 1154 marked the beginning of a long line of Plantagenet rulers that only came to an end with the death of Richard III in 1485.
Although the Plantagenets were incessant travellers - Richard the Lionheart spent only 10 months of a ten-year reign on the English side of the Channel - the Loire was their ancestral home.
As we follow in the footsteps of the Plantagenets and their forebears, we will observe developments in castle and devotional architecture and will visit buildings that represent the apogee of their age.
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 English Penny part 2
King Henry II ascended the throne in 1154 as the first of the Plantagenet dynasty.
This marks the beginning of the gradual decline in the number of mints used to strike English coins.
Richard III (1483-1485) was the last of the Plantagenet kings.
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 The Plantagenets - The Royal Forums
Henry was an accomplished soldier: at age fourteen he fought the Welsh forces of Owen ap Glendower; at age sixteen he commanded his father's forces at the battle of Shrewsbury; and shortly after his accession he put down a major Lollard uprising and an assassination plot by nobles still loyal to Richard II.
The Plantagenets grew out of the bitter feud between Matilda, daughter of Henry I and Stephen, son of Henry I's sister Adela.
In the end, Matilda's son, Henry Plantagenet, defeated his uncle on the battlefield and a compromise was made.
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 Royalty.nu - Royalty in English History - Kings and Queens of England
The Kings and Queens of England and Scotland by Plantagenet Somerset Fry and Peter Fry.
Kings and Queens of England and Scotland by Plantagenet Somerset Fry.
The royal household from the Plantagenets to Queen Victoria.
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 LaRouche on Vernadsky Strategy - Schiller Institute
The menacing situation facing the world today, is most nearly comparable to the history of Europe through the long and ruinous royal reign of the Plantagenets, 1154-1485, from Henry II through Richard III.
This House of Anjou, as confederate of the imperial maritime power of Venice, played a leading part in the repeated ruin of Europe during that entire span.
La amenazadora situación que enfrenta el mundo en la actualidad es casi equiparable a la historia de Europa a lo largo del prolongado y ruinoso reinado de los Plantagenet (1154–1485), de Enrique II a Ricardo III.
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 Royal Genealogy of England (1154-1625)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The line of the Plantagenet rulers begins in 1154 when the Plantagenet family ousted the Normans who had been ruling England since 1066 when William the Conquer came from France.
1399 to 1485 and pitted the house of Lancaster (the red roses) against the House of York (the white roses).
He then united the houses of Lancaster and York (his grandmother was Katherine of Valois, wife of Henry V [though his grandfather was her second husband, Owen Tudor not Henry V]; plus he married Elizabeth of York, daughter to Edward IV).
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 Royalty: Plantagenet
I have been a fan of the British royal family since childhood, and have studied its history through the years.
It seems to have originated as a nickname for Count Geoffrey and has been variously explained as referring to his practice of wearing a sprig of broom (Latin genista) in his hat or, more probably, to his habit of planting brooms to improve his hunting covers.
It was not, however, a hereditary surname, and Geoffrey's descendants in England remained without one for more than 250 years, although surnames became universal outside the royal family.
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 Ancestry.co.uk - Annals of England, A.D. 1154 to A.D. 1485, (the Plantagenets) : an epitome of English history from ...
Ancestry.co.uk - Annals of England, A.D. 1154 to A.D. 1485, (the Plantagenets) : an epitome of English history from contemporary writers : with
Annals of England, A.D. 1154 to A.D. 1485, (the Plantagenets) : an epitome of English history from contemporary writers : with
Source: Original data: Annals of England, A.D. 1154 to A.D. 1485, (the Plantagenets) : an epitome of English history from contemporary writers : with notes and illustrations..
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 2001: Plantagenets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This course will examine the lives and times of Britain's Plantagenet kings.
Part 1 will focus on the Angevins, from Henry II in 1154 through Henry III in 1272.
Part 2 will be devoted to the later Plantagenets, from Edward I in 1272 through Richard II in 1399.
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 Qwika - similar:Britain
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History of England Prehistoric Britain (before 43 AD) Roman Britain (43–410) Anglo-Saxon England (c.410 – 1066) Anglo-Normans (1066–1154) Plantagenets (1154–1485) House of Lancaster (1399–1471) House of York (1461–1485) House of Tudor (1485–1603) House of Stuart (1603–1714) United Kingdom (after 1707) England is the larges...
Vortigern, Vortiger, or Vortigen was a fifth century warlord, who did exist although parts of what we know about him are possibly legendary.
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 United Kingdom: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
The reign of Henry II (1154–1189), first of the Plantagenets, saw an increasing centralization of royal power at the expense of the nobles, but in 1215 King John (1199–1216) was forced to sign the Magna Carta, which awarded the people, especially the nobles, certain basic rights.
In England, the great poverty and discontent caused by the war were intensified by the Black Death, a plague that reduced the population by about one-third.
The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485), a struggle for the throne between the House of York and the House of Lancaster, ended in the victory of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at Bosworth Field (1485).
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 1776 Glossary and Comments
Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets: Some of the royal houses of England and Scotland.
The Tudors ruled England 1485-1603, the Plantagenets 1154-1485.
Spartacus, a Roman gladiator and slave from Thrace; led a slave revolt (B.C. 73-71, the Servile War); defeated Roman armies several times; defeated by Crassus and killed in action.
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 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Middle Ages, 1154-1485
A revised edition of a title in the BRITISH HISTORY series which introduces the main events, personalities and themes of the Middle Ages including the Wars of the Roses, the signing of the Magna Carta and the rule of the Plantagenets.
It aims to bring people and events to life and set them in a historical context.
This title explores the Middle Ages and readers can find out, amongst other things, who the Plantagenets were, where the Crusades were fought, what the Magna Carta was and how the war of the Roses began.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0753400995   (117 words)

  
 History of England - Wikipedia Mirror
This problem regarding succession was to cast a long shadow over English history.
During the disastrous and incompetent reign of Stephen (1135 - 1154), there was a major swing in the balance of power towards the feudal barons, as civil war and lawlessness broke out.
In trying to appease Scottish and Welsh raiders, he handed over large tracts of land.
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 hammered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Edward IV 1464 -70 London mint - Plain cross initial mark hammered silver groat 2.63g, 25.65 mm
Edward IV 1461- 1485 hammered silver groat (4 pence)
Groat (4 pence) York mint(Civitas EboRaci) found by Canadian Don
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