- Look up
Angevin or
angevin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Angevin or
House of
Anjou may
refer to:
County of
Anjou or
Duchy of Anjou, a historical...
- The term
Angevin Empire (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; French:
Empire Plantagenêt)
describes the
possessions held by the
House of
Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th...
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Angevin is the
traditional langue d'oïl
spoken in Anjou, a
historic province in
western France. It was also
spoken in
neighboring regions like the Pays...
- The
Angevin kings of
England (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; "from Anjou") were
Henry II and his sons,
Richard I and John, who
ruled England from 1154 to 1216. With ancestral...
- the
possession of
Charles of Anjou. Later, two
competing lines of the
Angevin family competed for the
Kingdom of
Naples in the late 14th century, which...
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claims to the
throne of
Sicily and grew to
involve the
Crown of Aragon,
Angevin Kingdom of Naples,
Kingdom of France, and the papacy.
Initially fought...
- 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...
- (1280–1281). A
Byzantine counteroffensive soon ensued,
which drove the
Angevins out of the
interior by 1281. The
Sicilian Vespers further weakened the...
- a
revolt against Angevin rule
known as the
Sicilian Vespers threw off
Charles of Anjou's rule of the
island of Sicily. The
Angevins managed to maintain...
- (who
would later marry Cozmo D),
Monique Angevin, and Bob "Chilly B"
Crafton (who
would later marry Angevin). The
coming together of
families inspired...
