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Hace 1 día · Republic of Ireland. United Kingdom. The term Angevin Empire ( / ˈændʒɪvɪn /; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly all of present-day England, half of France, and parts of Ireland and Wales, and had further ...
Hace 1 día · e. Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. He united most of Western and Central ...
Hace 3 días · Tudor monarchs of England and Ireland. Armorial. Lineage and the Tudor name. In popular culture. See also. References. Sources. Further reading. External links. House of Tudor. The House of Tudor ( / ˈtjuːdər /) [1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [2] .
Hace 5 días · Battle of Hastings, battle on October 14, 1066, that ended in the defeat of Harold II of England by William, duke of Normandy, and established the Normans as the rulers of England. Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Hace 2 días · Commonwealth, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association. Establishment.
- The Commonwealth is an association of countries across the world. Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to b...
- The British monarch is head of the Commonwealth. In some Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, the monarch sym...
- The Statute of Westminster in 1931 established the first countries to become autonomous while pledging allegiance to the British crown. Sovereign s...
- The smallest Commonwealth countries are Nauru, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, and Tuvalu, a country comprising nine coral isla...
Hace 5 días · Henry I, youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror’s sons, who, as king of England (1100–35), strengthened the crown’s executive powers and, like his father, also ruled Normandy (from 1106). Learn more about Henry I’s life, reign, and achievements in this article.
Hace 1 día · Most people in the feudal hierarchy both had lords and were lords of others. At times, even peasants and serfs had those below them and multiple lords above them. Even kings sometimes had lords, often another more powerful king. At times, homage was given to an overlord not because obligations were due or imposed on the vassal but to ...
