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  • noun Plural form of Angevin.

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Examples

  • One of the few poetic legends that break the stern story of the Angevins is the tale of Count Fulc the Good, how, journeying along

    Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

  • The story, "Les Lettres de Paston" is an alternate history set at the dawn of the fifteenth century in a world in which the Blois retained their hold on the English throne claimed by Stephen in 1135 and the Angevins turned their monarchical attention to the Capetian throne of France.

    - 2008

  • Abulafia, “The Kingdom of Sicily under the Hohenstaufen and Angevins,” in D.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • The Anglo-Normans were replaced by the Angevins whose hold on England was secure, and they also acquired additional lands in western France, Maine, Potiou, Anjou, Touraine, Gascony, Saintonge, and Aquitaine.

    The Hundred Years War Background, Part #1 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The Anglo-Normans were replaced by the Angevins whose hold on England was secure, and they also acquired additional lands in western France, Maine, Potiou, Anjou, Touraine, Gascony, Saintonge, and Aquitaine.

    Archive 2007-12-30 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • This new army, with to his head this young man of 21 years, rallies itself to the Angevins.

    Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • This new army, with to his head this young man of 21 years, rallies itself to the Angevins.

    Jacques Cathelineau de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Clement V and Philip IV (opposed to him as a rival of the Angevins) combined against him.

    e. The Papacy and Italy 2001

  • The Sicilians expelled the French, offered the crown to Peter III of Aragon, and hostilities between the Angevins in Naples and Aragonese on the island of Sicily continued for almost a century, to the destruction of good order and the Sicilian economy, and the impoverishment of the Sicilian people.

    2. Sicily and Naples 2001

  • Frederick brought to a close the war with Naples (Peace of Caltabeleotta, 1302), marrying the daughter of Charles I and accepting the stipulation that the Sicilian crown should pass to the Angevins on his death.

    2. Sicily and Naples 2001

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