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Angevin Empire
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former collection of states in north-western Europe during the High Middle Ages
Key facts
- Status
- Composite monarchy
- Capital
- No official capital. Court was generally held at Angers and Chinon .
- Official languages
- Old French • Medieval Latin
- Regional languages
- Basque Middle Breton Middle Cornish Norman French Cumbric Middle English Middle Irish Old Occitan Middle Welsh
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism (official)
- Government
- Feudal monarchy
- 1154 1189
- Henry II
- 1189 1199
- Richard I
- 1154 1204 aquitaine county of poitou sou
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 1199 1214
- John
- Historical era
- Middle Ages
- Henry ii inherits the kingdom of england
- 25 October 1154
- Anglo norman invasion of ireland
- 1169–1177
- Invasion of normandy by philip ii of fra
- 1202–1204
- Truce of chinon
- 28 September 1214
- Currency
- French livre , silver penny , gold penny
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official language
- Old French
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- inception
- 1154-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1242-00-00
- language used
- Norman
- replaced by
- Kingdom of France
- Commons category
- Angevin Empire
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part of France
Republic of Ireland
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angevin Empire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.