plantagenet in English

noun
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a member of the Plantagenet dynasty.
Thus began the rivalry between the Capetians and the Plantagenets as well as the birth of the Gothic style in France.
adjective
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relating to the English royal dynasty that held the throne from the accession of Henry II in 1154 until the death of Richard III in 1485.
Both these peers - the first of royal Plantagenet lineage, the second very much a new man, a Russell of the second generation - were decided Protestants, in favour of the new deal.

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1. 'King Henry the Sixth, Part III' George, son of Richard Plantagenet and afterwards Duke of Clarence.

2. Subsequently, the House of Plantagenet from Anjou inherited the English throne under Henry II, adding England to the budding Angevin Empire of fiefs the family had inherited in France including Aquitaine.

3. Henry II, Richard I ("the Lionheart"), and John are known as the Angevin Kings of England, although they are more commonly referred to as the first Plantagenet kings of England.

4. An intellectual centre in the 1400s and a lively university city today, Angers – the historical seat of the Plantagenet dynasty and the dukes of Anjou – makes an engaging western gateway to the Loire Valley.

5. Angevin any of the Plantagenet kings of England, especially those who were also counts of Anjou ( Henry II, Richard I, and John), descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou.The name comes via French from medieval Latin Andegavinus, from Andegavum ‘Angers’, the town in western France which is the former capital of Anjou.

6. Bailey's beautifully enunciated, pleasantly pitched, expressive and elegant voice is perfectly suited to this huge biography of a relatively little-known but intriguing figure in English history: Baseborn Perkin Warbeck or Richard Plantagenet, one of the two little princes incarcerated in the Tower of London and presumably murdered by Richard III.

7. Arms of Wrey Baronets, with quarterings and crests, as seen on mural monument in Tawstock Church, Devon, to Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet: Quarterly: 1st: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules (Wrey); 2nd: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water-bougets sable (); 3rd: Within a bordure argent the Royal Arms of England (Plantagenet); 4th: Azure