The term Angevin Empire (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th...

in western Europe which would retrospectively be referred to as the Angevin Empire. He inherited the duchy of Normandy and the counties of Anjou, Maine...

of historians concluded that there had not been an Angevin state, and therefore no "Angevin Empire", but that the term espace Plantagenet (French for...

lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian...

House of Anjou or the Angevins), rulers of the Kingdom of England. The conflict emerged over the Plantagenet-held Angevin Empire formed by Henry II of...

When Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine, creating the Angevin Empire, this resulted in some question over what inheritance laws would affect...

early 13th centuries Angevin Empire, the assemblage of territories in Britain and France ruled by the Angevin kings of England Angevin kings of Jerusalem...

Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland and the Duchy of Brittany. Henry...

direct heirs from Richard was the first step in the dissolution of the Angevin Empire. Contemporaries considered Richard as both a king and a knight famed...

pledged loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. As a result, a rivalry emerged between the French monarchs and the Angevins over control of the latter's...