The Loss of Normandy (1189-1204): Studies in the History of the Angevin EmpireUniversity Press, 1913 - 603 pages |
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... possessed a fragment of an old exchequer roll for 1136.2 There is even evidence for the existence of Norman chancery rolls at the beginning of Henry II's reign.3 Unfortunately the exchequer rolls survive in a fragmentary condition ...
... possessed a fragment of an old exchequer roll for 1136.2 There is even evidence for the existence of Norman chancery rolls at the beginning of Henry II's reign.3 Unfortunately the exchequer rolls survive in a fragmentary condition ...
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... possession of a single lord , nature seemed to gain one more inevitable victory . Yet truth , even geographical truth , is not often simple . Normandy had for fifty years been in close political alliance with a group of States upon ...
... possession of a single lord , nature seemed to gain one more inevitable victory . Yet truth , even geographical truth , is not often simple . Normandy had for fifty years been in close political alliance with a group of States upon ...
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... possession of the road , and the house of Plantagenet , after losing it , tried in vain to recover a footing in Anjou and Normandy . And just as this district had been the stronghold of the Angevin Empire , so it became in the fifteenth ...
... possession of the road , and the house of Plantagenet , after losing it , tried in vain to recover a footing in Anjou and Normandy . And just as this district had been the stronghold of the Angevin Empire , so it became in the fifteenth ...
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... possession of Touraine , and especially of Tours . The absence of mountains in this part of France tends to obscure the fact that , in the middle ages , Tours dominated the passage from north to south . From this great city roads ...
... possession of Touraine , and especially of Tours . The absence of mountains in this part of France tends to obscure the fact that , in the middle ages , Tours dominated the passage from north to south . From this great city roads ...
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... possession of Tours by the counts of Anjou blocked , we have said , the only way by which the kings of France could hope to control the west . The frequent references in this narrative to the attacks made by Philip Augustus upon the ...
... possession of Tours by the counts of Anjou blocked , we have said , the only way by which the kings of France could hope to control the west . The frequent references in this narrative to the attacks made by Philip Augustus upon the ...
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