Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to the historical region and former province of Anjou, France.
- adjective Relating to the House of Anjou, especially as represented by the Plantagenet kings of England descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou (died 1151).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Anjou, a former western province of France: specifically applied to the royal family of England reigning from 1154 to 1485, the Plantagenets, descendants of Geoffrey V., Count of Anjou, and Matilda, daughter of Henry I. of England;
- to the period of English history from 1154 to the death of Richard II. in 1399, or, according to others, to the loss of Normandy, Anjou, Maine, etc., in 1204. The contending houses of York and Lancaster were both of the Angevin race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a resident of Anjou.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Anjou (province and House) - noun A native or resident of
Anjou
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a resident of Anjou
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As the income Edward II derived from his tenure of the duchy exceeded that of all the English shires combined,2 he not surprisingly exerted great effort to maintain his administrative and judicial presence in what remained to him of the so-called Angevin empire.
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320 Jay Lathen Boehm 1992
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The family is also called Angevin, because Henry on his father's side descended from the counts of Anjou in France.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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You've that fine-boned look through the face that some of the Angevin ladies have.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Madrid 4. This château was the seat of Henry II, Angevin King and King of England, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was here that Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself king and raise an army to liberate France; in 1562, Henri IV turned it into a state prison.
Archive 2009-01-01 Julianne Douglas 2009
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Madrid 4. This château was the seat of Henry II, Angevin King and King of England, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was here that Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself king and raise an army to liberate France; in 1562, Henri IV turned it into a state prison.
Quiz: Do You Know Your French Châteaux? Julianne Douglas 2009
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Next year, Bernard and David Bachrach will have a session on Angevin military history.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 Business Meeting 2009
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As you would expect, I have to read a fair amount of history by way of research, so exciting books like England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075 – 1225 also crowd the bedside table.
Yatterings » Fact and Fiction – Stephen Lawhead interviewed 2007
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Evenings I longed for the lisp of Poitiers, the sarcasm of the Angevin back country.
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They remain; and no admixture of the Frisian pirates, or the Breton, or the Angevin and Norman conquerors, has very much affected their cunning eyes.
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Yet out of all the details of rivalry between Guelf and Ghibelline, between French and German, between Angevin and Byzantine, there emerges an image as crystalline as a painting by Van Eyck.
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