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Plantagenet

Noun

Meaning

the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485

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In the year of Christ 1183, the House of Plantagenet was at war against itself. Sharon Kay Penman

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. Charlotte Turner Smith

Henry III himself was interred nearby, as were many of the Plantagenet kings of England, their wives and other relatives. Source: Internet

Henry married Elizabeth of York with the hope of uniting the Yorkist and Lancastrian sides of the Plantagenet dynastic disputes, and he was largely successful. Source: Internet

;Fiction: * Elizabeth of York is the subject of Hilda Brookman Stanier's novel Plantagenet Princess, pub. Source: Internet

Capetian France 937–1328 p. 64: "Then, in 1151, Henry Plantagenet paid homage for the duchy to Louis VII in Paris, homage he repeated as king of England in 1156." Source: Internet

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