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3 days ago · 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 of Lancaster and York, two of the Plantagenets cadet branches.
3 days ago · Henry II planned to divide his and Eleanor's territories among their three eldest surviving sons: Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy; Richard would inherit Aquitaine and Poitiers from his mother; and Geoffrey would become Duke of Brittany through marriage with Constance, heir presumptive of Conan ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Sibylla of Anjou Countess consort of Flanders c. 1112 –1165: Geoffrey V 1113–1151 Count of Anjou: Empress Matilda Holy Roman Empress c. 1102 –1167 r. 1141 Disputed: Henry V 1086–1125 Holy Roman Emperor: William Adelin 1103–1120 Duke of Normandy: Matilda of Anjou c. 1111 –1154: Louis VII 1120–1180 King of France: Constance of ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Fulk III Nerra was the count of Anjou (987–1040), the most powerful of the early rulers of the Angevin dynasty. Exposed at first to the attacks of the counts of Brittany, Fulk had to fight for a long time to defend his frontiers, finally driving the Bretons back beyond the frontiers of Anjou.
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Jun 29, 2024 · The House of Anjou, or Angevins, were a family of Frankish origin descended from a ninth-century noble name Ingelger, who were Counts of Anjou since 870. The Angevin monarchs also never shied away from their supposedly supernatural origins, said to have been descended from a demon.
Jul 1, 2024 · Sibylla of ANJOU is geboren in het jaar 1112 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, dochter van Fulk V of ANJOU en Ermengarde of MAINE. Zij is in het jaar 1139 in Israel, Holy Land getrouwd met Thierry of FLANDERS, ze kregen 5 kinderen.. Zij is overleden in het jaar 1165 in Abbey of St Lazarus, Bethlehem, Israel.
Instead, once she was crowned, she chose Guy as her consort — and crowned him herself when the patriarch refused to do so. Sibylla had chosen Guy, because she was passionately in love with him, over not only the wishes of her subjects but in violation of an oath she had made to her supporters.
