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- noun Plural form of
Plantagenet .
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The struggle with the Plantagenets was the ruling idea of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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But while Normans held the throne for nearly a hundred years, and while brilliant poets and storytellers enchanted French-speakers under the Plantagenets, English-speakers were remaking their language in an utterly “unsponsored” way, below the radar of official French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But while Normans held the throne for nearly a hundred years, and while brilliant poets and storytellers enchanted French-speakers under the Plantagenets, English-speakers were remaking their language in an utterly “unsponsored” way, below the radar of official French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets.
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Within a few years he had gained control of land from Ireland to the Auvergne and the Plantagenets could justly claim what the historian Martin Aurell in The Plantagenet Empire 1154-1224 2007 calls an "Atlantic dominion".
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Even children who see themselves as 100% English, Welsh, Scottish or British are likely to have ancestors who were Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Flemish, Plantagenets from Anjou, or from Germany in the 17th century or Italians, Armenians and Black Africans in the 19th century.
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This pageant, this Golden Age was the age of the Plantagenets.
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The last of the Plantagenets bled horribly to death there.
The OLM Blog 2009
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And so came the end of the Plantagenets proper, and the beginning of the Lancastrians.
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In Arthur Bryant's account, Henry III's son, Edward I, was the last of the great Plantagenets, indeed, the very "beau-ideal of a medieval king".
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