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Hace 22 horas · Background. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou's marriage to the Empress Matilda and the wars they led, resulted in his family's control of Normandy and England by 1154, while the marriage of Geoffrey's son Henry Curtmantle, to Eleanor of Aquitaine expanded the family's holdings into what was later termed the Angevin Empire.
Hace 22 horas · Empress Matilda and Geoffrey's son, Henry, resumed the invasion; he was already Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy and Duke of Aquitaine when he landed in England. When Stephen's son and heir apparent Eustace died in 1153, Stephen made an agreement with Henry of Anjou (who became Henry II ) to succeed Stephen and guarantee peace between them.
Hace 22 horas · Famine points to her hungry mouth. The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance ). [1]
Hace 22 horas · Eleanor was related to Henry even more closely than she had been to Louis: they were cousins to the third degree through their common ancestor Ermengarde of Anjou, wife of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais, and they were also descended from King Robert II of France.
Hace 22 horas · The crusading movement encompasses the framework of ideologies and institutions that described, regulated, and promoted the Crusades. The crusades were religious wars that the Christian Latin Church initiated, supported, and sometimes directed in the Middle Ages. The members of the Church defined this movement in legal and theological terms ...
