Some eight hundred and fifty years ago, a red-haired and fiercely energetic young man succeeded to the throne ofEnglandas King Henry II. Descended on his mother’s side from the Norman kings who had ruledEnglandsince 1066, and on his father’s from the Plantagenet dynasty that had held sway overAngersand theLoirevalley from at least the tenth century, Henry II was vastly to extend this ancestral inheritance. By his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, he had already acquired dominion over the whole of south-western France, stretching from the Loire down to the Pyrenees. Through a process of political coercion, by the mid 1160s he was to project his authority westwards into Brittanyand Walesand northwards to reseize the counties of Westmorland, Cumberlandand Northumberland occupied for the previous twenty years by the kings of Scotland. [download]
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