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Sentence Examples When they compared cows by breed of sire, the ranking order was Maine Anjou, Chianina, Brahman, and Simmental. The peninsula's westernmost point is barren Punta Campanella, a familiar site from Capri, with its squat Anjou watchtower. If figs aren't available, try ripe Anjou or Bartlett pears in this savory fall salad made extra fragrant with walnut oil. However, he was also committed to reconquering his father's lands in Normandy, Anjou and especially in Poitou. Supermarket pear bins are full of Bosc, Anjou and the Bartletts, red or yellow. Villages where grapes for AOC Anjou mousseux are grown are marked. Although in the short-term Casimir quit France, the following year, when Henry defaulted on the second payment, he sold his services to the machinating Anjou. The Anjou, the Comice, and the tiny Forelle are better appreciated fresh. Bruno Lemesle found only one case out of all his documents in Anjou where the defendant paid a champion for his efforts. At its most basic level, Chenin is grown in the Loire to produce wines to be drunk young, such as basic Anjou Blanc or inexpensive Saumur or Vouvray. The main problem being that no matter how enthusiastically a wine buff describes their cheeky little wine from Anjou, the viewer is left unable to smell or taste it. The disaster was caused by the total collapse of his house in the Rue d' Anjou, undermined by the excavations carried out by the bank next door for its strong room. From the accession of Henry II in England through Richard III, Europe was besieged by an alliance between Venice and the evil Plantagenets, especially the House of Anjou. Significant gaps in historical analysis of Henry remain, especially the nature of his rule in Anjou and the south of France. The empire was established by Henry II, as King of England, Count of Anjou, and Duke of Normandy. The Counts of Anjou had been vying for power in northwestern France since the 10th century. At the head of a new army and ready for conquest, Geoffrey was wounded and was forced to return to Anjou again. After Geoffrey's investment as duke, further rebellion occurred in Anjou, including Geoffrey's younger brother, Helie, demanding Maine. Now Henry refused to give Anjou to his brother because it would mean splitting his land in two. Geoffrey raised a revolt in Anjou while Stephen attacked Angevin loyalists in England. Show More Sentences Subsequently, the question was again raised of Henry's oath to cede Anjou to his brother Geoffrey. In exchange for Philip's help against his father, Richard promised to concede to him his rights to both Normandy and Anjou. The trip is unlikely given William's absorption in warfare with Anjou at the time. He also allowed his son Robert Curthose to do homage to the new Count of Anjou, Geoffrey the Bearded. The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland. The marriage was the third attempt of Geoffrey's father, Fulk V, Count of Anjou, to build a political alliance with Normandy. When he died in November 1135, the couple were in Anjou, allowing Matilda's cousin Stephen to seize the crown of England. Guillaume des Roches led the magnates of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine declaring for Arthur. Edward had restored the lands of the former Angevin Empire holding Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, Maine and the coastline from Flanders to Spain. Henry was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. He inherited Anjou in 1151 and shortly afterwards married Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Louis VII of France had recently been annulled. Decisively defeated by Philip and Richard and suffering from a bleeding ulcer, Henry retreated to Chinon in Anjou, where he died. Henry returned to Anjou in either 1143 or 1144, resuming his education under William of Conches, another famous academic. Suddenly, however, Henry turned back south towards Anjou, against the advice of his officials. Two days later Henry II died in Chinon, and Richard the Lionheart succeeded him as King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Count of Anjou. In Anjou, Stephen of Tours was replaced as seneschal and temporarily imprisoned for fiscal mismanagement. Payn de Rochefort, an Angevin knight, was elevated to the post of seneschal of Anjou. He was no Englishman, but it does not follow that he gave to Normandy, Anjou, or Aquitaine the love or care that he denied to his kingdom. Power devolved into the hands of his uncles, the dukes of Anjou, Berry and Burgundy. In 1481, the last male of the House of Anjou died, willing all the Angevin possessions to the king. Show More Sentences As the heir of the House of Anjou, Charles VIII decided to press his claim to the Kingdom of Naples. In 1573, the king's brother, Henry, Duke of Anjou, was elected King of Poland. They were declared traitors and forced to flee to France, where Margaret of Anjou was already in exile. When Edward captured Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou, she was brought back to be detained at the castle. The third decade saw campaigns by Fulk V of Anjou, the Venetians, and Conrad III of Germany and the foundation of the Knights Templar. Following the King's instructions, Clarence led 4000 men in raids through the Anjou and Maine. The left units were the Bretons, along with those from Anjou, Poitou and Maine. This had broken out in 1282 between the Capetian House of Anjou and Catalans over the possession of Sicily. In 1462, during the Wars of the Roses, Margaret of Anjou made an abortive attempt to seize the Northumbrian castles. After the 860s, Lotharingian noble Robert the Strong became increasingly powerful as count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine. The result was the Angevin Empire, named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers. John hoped to acquire Normandy, Anjou and the other lands in France held by Richard in exchange for allying himself with Philip. Accompanied by William de Roches, his seneschal in Anjou, he swung his mercenary army rapidly south to protect her. William de Roches and other of John's regional allies in Anjou and Brittany deserted him in favour of Philip, and Brittany rose in fresh revolt. By August, Philip had taken Normandy and advanced south to occupy Anjou and Poitou as well. Philip also began to wage war with King Henry II of England, who was also Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine in France. The terms of John's vassalage were not only for Normandy, but also for Anjou, Maine, and Touraine. However, Henry's Queen, Margaret of Anjou, rebuilt a powerful faction to oppose the Yorkists over the following years. In response to this, Henry declared his daughter, Matilda, his heir and married her to Geoffrey of Anjou. The relationship between Henry and the couple became strained, and fighting broke out along the border with Anjou. Show More Sentences Fulk V assumed power in Anjou in 1109 and began to rebuild Angevin authority. Meanwhile, Henry rebuilt his alliance with Fulk of Anjou, this time by marrying Matilda to Fulk's eldest son, Geoffrey. Fulk left Anjou for Jerusalem in 1129, declaring Geoffrey the Count of Anjou and Maine. In 1266 Charles of Anjou, who was heading south to fight the Hohenstaufen on behalf of the pope, was appointed Senator. When he died in December 1135, the couple were in Anjou, allowing Matilda's cousin Stephen to seize the crown of England. But the Bosc, Comice, and green and red Anjou don't change color when ripe. Anjou, Red Anjou, Bose, Comice, Concorde, Forelle and Seckel will be picked from late August through mid-October. Due to his mother's support, Aquitaine and Poitou supported John and only Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and Brittany remained disputed. In May, Aimeri, Viscount of Thouars, who was chosen by John to be his seneschal in Anjou, attacked Tours in order to capture Arthur of Brittany. To the north, it bordered on Bretagne, Anjou, Blois and Bourbonnais, all of which had passed to the kingdom of France by the 13th century. The King travelled to Anjou for this purpose, and Geoffrey dealt with Brittany. Then the Neustrians rebelled under Ragenfrid, who had left the county of Anjou. To placate Philip, Richard had given him 10,000 marks and agreed that if he had two sons, the youngest would take Normandy, Aquitaine, or Anjou and rule it under Philip. The War of the Sicilian Vespers had by the early 14th century divided southern Italy into an Aragon Kingdom of Sicily and an Anjou Kingdom of Naples. As a result of John's behaviour the powerful Thouars, Lusignan, and des Roches families rebelled and John lost control of Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and northern Poitou. In the early 12th century Geoffrey of Anjou married Empress Matilda, King Henry I's only surviving legitimate child and heir to the English throne. Unlike the Whigs, Harley and his ministry were ready to compromise by giving Spain to the Bourbon claimant, Philip of Anjou, in return for commercial concessions. Richard was crowned King Richard I of England in Westminster Abbey in November 1189, and had already been installed as Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and Duke of Aquitaine. Following his coronation, in 1173, Henry, 'the Young King', asked for part of his inheritance, at least England, Normandy, or Anjou, but his father refused. Geoffrey refused and returned to Anjou to rebel against his brother. Show More Sentences The weather was extremely hot, the King was increasingly ill and he appears to have wanted to die peacefully in Anjou rather than fight yet another campaign. The first part of the campaign went well, with John outmanoeuvring the forces under the command of Prince Louis and retaking the county of Anjou by the end of June. The French King and his brother Charles of Anjou, who had made himself King of Sicily, decided to attack the emirate to establish a stronghold in North Africa. A major obstacle to this was represented by the conflict between the French House of Anjou ruling southern Italy, and the kingdom of Aragon in Spain. In 1282, the citizens of Palermo rose up against Charles of Anjou and turned for help to Peter of Aragon, in what has become known as the Sicilian Vespers. William then turned his attention to the continent, returning to Normandy in early 1073 to deal with the invasion of Maine by Fulk le Rechin, the Count of Anjou. Contemporaneous accounts suggest he left the main castles in Poitou to Geoffrey, implying that he may have intended Henry to retain Normandy and Anjou and not Poitou. It has long been known to Chaucerians that there was a French prose version of the Filostrato by Beauveau, Seneschal of Anjou, entitled Le Roman de Troyle et de Criseide. There he made an alliance with the Lancastrian Queen Margaret of Anjou. In return for increased lands in Aquitaine, Edward renounced Normandy, Touraine, Anjou and Maine and consented to reducing King John's ransom by a million crowns. Henry's marriage to Margaret of Anjou prompted criticism from Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, because it included the surrender of Maine and an extended truce with France. Directed by Henry's queen, the powerful and aggressive Margaret of Anjou, who emerged as the de facto leader of the Lancastrians, Richard was forced out of court. To address the growing power of the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey Martel, William joined with King Henry in a campaign against him, the last known cooperation between the two. The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. Elizabeth bowed to public feeling against the marriage, learning from the mistake her sister made when she married Philip II of Spain, and sent the Duke of Anjou away. Her last courtship was with Francis, Duke of Anjou, 22 years her junior. He was therefore childless, and in his final will he left his throne to a French prince, the Bourbon Philip of Anjou, rather than to a fellow Habsburg, albeit from Austria. Geoffrey died in September 1151, and Henry postponed his plans to return to England, as he first needed to ensure that his succession, particularly in Anjou, was secure. Henry's later childhood, probably from the age of seven, was spent in Anjou, where he was educated by Peter of Saintes, a noted grammarian of the day. After Matilda was pushed out of England into the County of Anjou, essentially failing in her legitimist attempt for the throne, many of her supporters in England fled also. Show More Sentences In theory, the county answered to the French king, but royal power over Anjou weakened during the 11th century and the county became largely autonomous. In 1461 Berwick was ceded back to Scotland by Margaret of Anjou on behalf of her husband, Henry VI, in return for help against the Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses. This account was supported by the Counts of Anjou, who claimed descent from a Roman soldier expelled from Lower Brittany by Conan on Magnus's orders. Henry was born in France at Le Mans on 5 March 1133 as the eldest child of the Empress Matilda and her second husband, Geoffrey the Fair, Count of Anjou. In 1204, John lost Normandy, Brittany, Maine and Anjou to Philip II of France, leaving English power on the continent limited to Gascony and Poitou. Examples from Classical Literature From the sprig of broom that his father, Geoffrey of Anjou, is said to have worn as a badge. The Counts of Anjou claimed the right to take this blue flag to battle with them. Aix was the capital in Provence of the art-loving Anjou princes of the Capetian line. The same year he received a teaching appointment at the lycee in Angers, the ancient capital of Anjou. But Charles of Anjou owed his throne, in reality, to the assistance of the Milanese. As Anjou advanced southward, Partenay was abandoned without a blow, and after occupying it he pushed on toward Niort. There were in the chamber at the time only the king, his mother, and his brother the Duke of Anjou. Accompanied by Anjou, she sought him in his cabinet, nor would she be denied. The aim had been thus to weld into one the two branches of the House of Anjou. The Countess bade him sit, and with her own hands she poured a cup of Anjou for him. I found on lately revisiting Anjou, and in the Berri, that the better-off peasants are building houses with upper bedrooms. The guards of the Duke of Anjou fired at him as at a target. There is Anjou, who made a jest of the dead body of my uncle Conde. Here Margaret of Anjou and her son were reconciled to Warwick. At his death his brother Francis, Duke of Anjou, would ascend the throne. Use of the technology for keeping an eye on stored apples and pears is still relatively new, and very little research data about its applicability to Anjou has been published. Find more words! 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