Anjou

Traditionally depicted as weak-willed and dominated by his wife Margaret of Anjou, he was probably not suited very well for the throne, though he did appreciate and care for his kingdom. Margaret is generally said to be cold, vicious, and willing to do anything to keep herself in power, but she may have just been trying to protect…

The Plantagenets was a powerful family that ruled England for more than three centuries, from 1154 to 1485. During the 15th and 16th centuries, periods of violence and upheaval shook England. The death of Edward III caused the descendants of the two main houses of the Plantagenet families—York and Lancaster—to fight for their right to the throne, causing the War of the Roses to erupt (Miller, 2003). This time period, before the war began, England inherited the King Henry VI, whose reign was soft…

Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Philippe was a prominent member of the Bourbon dynasty, and when he was baptized his father, Louis XIII, wanted to give him the title of Count of Artois, however, he followed tradition and bestowed Philippe with title of Duke of Anjou. His life and upbringing was oriented around the Cardinal Jules Mazarin, a Duke whose policy was directed at centralizing authority. That policy was reflected in the way, the royal brother was raised. From birth to death, it was indoctrinated…

The Battle of Hastings The battle of Hastings happened in 1066. The battle was between King Harold II and William the Conqueror. King Harold II was put as king of England when his close friend Edward the Confessor died as king without leaving an heir. But it turned out that William the Duke of Normandy in France was a distance cousin of Edward which made him eligible by blood to be king. The two men went into battle against each other to fight for the throne. William marched with his troops of…

In summary, Dante experienced the issues coming from the battle between Philip IV's nationalist power (King from 1285-1314, who, during the war of the so-called Sicilian Vespers helped the Anjou against the Aragonese) and the papacy's universal power that in the while had degenerated more and more until the French King decided to tax the income of the ecclesiastics, provoking Pope Boniface VIII's ire, who, in contrast, published some important bulls trying to limit Philip's powers. In fact, one…

The Crusades were Christians who made armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land in hopes of recovering Jerusalem from Muslim rule.The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's international and cultural isolation. There were four great expeditions between 1095 and 1204 of these religiously inspired military campaigns against Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean. As a result of the Crusades, noble courts and burgeoning cities in Western Europe attained more goods from the east and adopted ideas from…

Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars from English history whose violence and civil disobedience came before the strong government of the Tudors. The series of civil wars lasted from 1455-1485 and were fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York for the English throne. The series of wars were named many years later after the supposed badges of the two parties: the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster. The two houses claimed the throne through the…

energetic and ruthless ruler, who managed to take control of large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and the western half of France (from Normandy to the Pyrenees, including, among others, the duchies of Gascony and Aquitaine, the counties of Anjou, Poitou, Maine and Touraine) , what would later come to be called the Angevin Empire. Henry II also held various levels of control over the duchies of Brittany and the county of Toulouse. Only modern scholars refer to this assemblage of…

can now only find the works of Josquin through the admiration by his later contemporaries. It is believed that Josquin could have a possible connection with the French royal court. Around 1475-c, he became the member of the chapel of King Rene of Anjou. He sang in the chapel choir of the Dukes of Milan. He stayed in Rome singing in the papal choir but it seems he…

Medieval Manuscript Rough Draft: Life and Death of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Grandmother of Europe Once known as queen of England and France, Eleanor of Aquitaine sadly passed away. She was in retirement in Fontevrault, Anjou when she was discovered possibly lapsed out in a coma on April 1, 2016. But the importance was not stationed at her death but her early life, accomplishments, and her long lasting legacy. Eleanor’s early life had built the foundation and support for her success as a ruler,…