The Loss of Normandy (1189-1204): Studies in the History of the Angevin EmpireUniversity Press, 1913 - 603 pages |
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... held the valley of the Loire and the approaches to Tours from the north - west and from Paris . Conflict was inevitable between the counts of Blois and their ambitious rivals of Angers , and was so prolonged that even the struggle ...
... held the valley of the Loire and the approaches to Tours from the north - west and from Paris . Conflict was inevitable between the counts of Blois and their ambitious rivals of Angers , and was so prolonged that even the struggle ...
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... held of the counts of Blois , became the nucleus of the Angevin settlement in the country between Loches and the Angevin possessions in northern Poitou . Gradually , with the exception of Saumur , which held out in the extreme west of ...
... held of the counts of Blois , became the nucleus of the Angevin settlement in the country between Loches and the Angevin possessions in northern Poitou . Gradually , with the exception of Saumur , which held out in the extreme west of ...
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... held castles . This fact , conversely , gave a distinctive and independent character to the successors of Fulk Nerra's castellans , who had occasionally contributed to the expense of erecting the strongholds entrusted to them.3 These ...
... held castles . This fact , conversely , gave a distinctive and independent character to the successors of Fulk Nerra's castellans , who had occasionally contributed to the expense of erecting the strongholds entrusted to them.3 These ...
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... held the title between 885 and 927 ; it then came to Raymond of Toulouse ; finally , sometime after 950 , it was attached to the count of Poitou . From this time Auvergne ceased to be the centre of the duchy , and the titles of Poitou ...
... held the title between 885 and 927 ; it then came to Raymond of Toulouse ; finally , sometime after 950 , it was attached to the count of Poitou . From this time Auvergne ceased to be the centre of the duchy , and the titles of Poitou ...
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... held a court at Verneuil . Here , in the presence of his barons , he promulgated a statute dealing with the debts of crusaders and limiting the responsibility of their vassals for them . The king , adds the chronicler , ordered the ...
... held a court at Verneuil . Here , in the presence of his barons , he promulgated a statute dealing with the debts of crusaders and limiting the responsibility of their vassals for them . The king , adds the chronicler , ordered the ...
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