| However, he was also committed to reconquering his father's lands in Normandy, Anjou and especially in Poitou. |
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| Arthur duly did Philip homage and in July he invaded Poitou while Philip attacked Normandy. |
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| In 1224, during one such domestic quarrel, their old Capetian enemy, now King Louis VIII, walked into Poitou, captured La Rochelle, and threatened Gascony. |
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| Due to his mother's support, Aquitaine and Poitou supported John and only Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and Brittany remained disputed. |
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| By the age of 16, Richard had taken command of his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father. |
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| Richard went to Poitou and raised the barons who were loyal to himself and his mother in rebellion against his father. |
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| The name also reverses the syllables of Airvault, his family's home town in the Poitou region. |
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| The left units were the Bretons, along with those from Anjou, Poitou and Maine. |
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| In a fresh attempt to reclaim his family's lands in France, he invaded Poitou in 1242, leading to the disastrous Battle of Taillebourg. |
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| In the aftermath of the revolt, French power extended throughout Poitou, threatening the interests of the Lusignan family. |
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| Officials could be stationed in Poitou, however, due to a large concentration of castles compared to the rest of Aquitaine. |
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| William X, Count of Poitou died in 1164 without being installed in Ireland, but Henry II didn't give up on the conquest of Ireland. |
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| In autumn 1241, he left Syria and joined King Henry's campaign against King Louis IX in Poitou. |
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| Richard was to be appointed the Count of Poitou with control of Aquitaine, whilst Geoffrey was to become the Duke of Brittany. |
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| Philip argued that he was summoning John not as the Duke of Normandy, but as the Count of Poitou, which carried no such special status. |
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| By August, Philip had taken Normandy and advanced south to occupy Anjou and Poitou as well. |
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| In 1206 John departed for Poitou himself, but was forced to divert south to counter a threat to Gascony from Alfonso VIII of Castile. |
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| The invasion plans for 1212 were postponed because of fresh English baronial unrest about service in Poitou. |
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| They lived on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle, and spread across provinces of Normandy and Poitou. |
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| It is a language like to that of Poitou, Xaintonge, Angoulesme, Limosin, and Auvergne, squattering, dragling, and filthie. |
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| Meanwhile, Louis VIII of France allied himself with Hugh de Lusignan and invaded first Poitou and then Gascony. |
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| 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. |
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| In Poitou and the Haute-Vienne, grooms on their wedding day could protect themselves against the nouement by placing a little salt in one of their pockets. |
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| 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. |
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| He raided Poitou but was stopped by the local officials, and captured. |
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| The bezants in Richard's arms were intended to represent peas, known in French as pois, as a punning reference to the French region of Poitou, of which he was count. |
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| 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. |
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| The Angevin Empire had been reduced to England, Gascony, Ireland, and parts of Poitou, and John would not return to his continental possessions for eight years. |
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| Clement K, Viguerie N, Poitou C, Carette C, Pelloux V, Curat CA, et al. |
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