#House of Plantagenet

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The House of York by Philip James de Loutherbourg

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I’M ALMOST DONE GRAHHHHHH

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Liber Regalis

Among the remarkable treasures in our collection is the Liber Regalis - or 'royal book.'

The beautifully illustrated 14th-century English medieval illuminated manuscript gives ceremonial instructions and the order of service for the coronation.

The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066.

The manuscript is thought to have been made for the crowning of Richard II's queen, Anne of Bohemia, here in 1382.

Despite various changes over the centuries, the instructions it gives still form the basis of the coronation service today.

You can see the Liber Regalis on display in our museum, the Abbey Galleries.

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Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400)

Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394)

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Women’s History Meme || Mistresses (7/10) ↬ Rosamund de Clifford (before 1140 – c. 1176)

Popular biographers barely acknowledge that Henry II had a son by Ida de Tosney, but they attach much significance to his infatuation with Rosamund Clifford, who has been termed “the great love of his life.” Henry’s supposed public flaunting of his new mistress is sometimes put forward as the source of the queen’s desire for revenge. The fair maiden Rosamund was the daughter of Walter Clifford, a Welsh border lord, and the king may have first met her at a stop at her father’s castle during his 1165 campaign in Wales. She was no more than in her early twenties while he was thirty-two, and Eleanor had passed her fortieth year. None of the late twelfth-century chroniclers makes a specific allegation that Rosamund Clifford was the cause of Eleanor’s disenchantment with her marriage, however, and the evidence is too thin to suggest that this mistress presented a greater threat to it than had Henry’s previous ones. Most significantly, the chronology of Henry II’s affair with Rosamund does not fit the alleged facts. Some biographers have dated the king’s affair with her as early as 1166, and they credit the queen’s decision to leave the English court for Poitou in 1168 to the humiliation that she suffered. Yet the affair is likely to have begun during Eleanor’s Poitevin sojourn, no earlier than 1170 and possibly not until 1173, and it only became a public spectacle after the queen’s return to England as a prisoner in 1174, lasting some six years until Rosamund’s death in 1176 or 1177. Although Henry’s second illegitimate son, William Longsword, was born shortly before or soon after his affair with Rosamund Clifford began, he was definitely not her child. Eleanor’s husband was no more faithful to the fair Rosamund than he was to his queen. If Rosamund was indeed the great love of Henry’s life, the strongest evidence for his devotion is a house known as Everswell that he ordered to be built near the royal residence at Woodstock, intended for her according to tradition. Constructed around a spring with water running through rectangular pools and surrounded by cloistered courts, it was more like palaces of Norman Sicily than any secular building in northern Europe. In later legend Rosamund’s residence would be described as a maze or labyrinth, designed to make certain that Eleanor could never find her rival. Not even the gossipy Gerald of Wales, always willing to slander the Plantagenets, depicted the queen’s incitement of her sons’ revolt as resulting from her wrath over Henry’s mistress Rosamund Clifford. In one work written only a few years after the great revolt, he implied that Henry had been discreet in his adulteries up to that time: “After the great wrong committed against their father by his sons, under their mother’s influence … [the king] openly broke his marriage vows.” Writing decades later, Gerald declared that the king “was before an adulterer in secret, and was afterwards manifestly such,” pointing out that he publicly displayed his liaison with Rosamund only after the queen’s imprisonment. Other chroniclers add nothing about Rosamund’s role in Eleanor’s estrangement from Henry. The sometime royal clerk, Roger of Howden, remained silent about the affair until after the king’s death. Rosamund’s name only appears in his account of Saint Hugh of Lincoln’s visit to the convent of Godstow in 1191, when he ordered her tomb removed from the nuns’ chapel and reburied in the churchyard, “for she was a harlot.” Eleanor’s rage against Henry for his liaison with the fair Rosamund is insufficient to explain her role in her sons’ revolt. — Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England by Ralph Turner

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Portrait of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (1113-1151). Unknown artist.

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⋆ William, The Conqueror to William, The Prince of Wales ⋆

⤜ The Prince of Wales is William I's 24th Great-Grandson via his paternal grandmother's line.

William I of England

Henry I of England

Empress Matilda

Henry II of England

John of England

Henry III of England

Edward I of England

Edward II of England

Edward III of England

Lionel of Antwerp, Ist Duke of Clarence

Philippa Plantagenet, Vth Countess of Ulster

Roger Mortimer, IVth Earl of March

Anne Mortimer

Richard Plantagenet, IIIrd Duke of York

Edward IV of England

Elizabeth of York

Margaret Tudor

James V of Scotland

Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland

James I of England

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Sophia, Electress of Hanover

George I of Great Britain

George II of Great Britain

Frederick, Prince of Wales

George III of the United Kingdom

Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

George V of the United Kingdom

George VI of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Charles III of the United Kingdom

William, The Prince of Wales

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“The Plantagenets (including Lancastrians and Yorks) were the definitive English Royal Family.” - Submitted by shykittycat

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Moodboard: Henry II, King of England (1154-1189).

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Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile. Unknown artist.

She was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile (1170-1214).

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Czas porzucić rolę Boga i przywdziać szaty diabła.

Ryszard Plantagenet, książę Gloucester

Aya Kanno "Baraou no Souretsu", tom 11.

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— John Lackland to Maude de Braose

Sorry man. You are too weird and unpleasant. Can you please never talk to anyone again and starve to death in a small cell? Thank you.

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I wonder what happened after. 🤷

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TODAY IN HISTORY:

7 February 1301

Edward of Caernarfon, later King Edward II of England, is named Prince of Wales.

It's the first time the son of the King of England was named the Prince of Wales, making Edward II the first of the current line of Princes of Wales.

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Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir to the throne following the death of his older brother Alphonso.

Beginning in 1300, Edward accompanied his father on campaigns to pacify Scotland.

In 1307, he was knighted in a grand ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Edward succeeded to the throne later that year, following his father's death.

In 1308, he married Isabella of France, the daughter of the powerful King Philip IV, as part of a long-running effort to resolve the tensions between the English and French crowns.

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Favorite History Books || The Daughters of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Comparative Study of Twelfth-Century Royal Women by Colette Bowie ★★★★☆

This study compares and contrasts the experiences of the three daughters of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The exogamous marriages of Matilda, Leonor, and Joanna, which created dynastic links between the Angevin realm and Saxony, Castile, Sicily and Toulouse, served to further the political and diplomatic ambitions of their parents and spouses. It might be expected that their choices in religious patronage and dynastic commemoration would follow the customs and patterns of their marital families, yet the patronage and commemorative programmes of Matilda, Leonor, and Joanna provide evidence of possible influence from their natal family which suggests a coherent sense of family consciousness. To discern why this might be the case, an examination of the childhoods of these women has been undertaken (Part I), to establish what emotional ties to their natal family may have been formed at this impressionable time. In Part II, the political motivations for their marriages are analysed, demonstrating the importance of these dynastic alliances, as well as highlighting cultural differences and similarities between the courts of Saxony, Castile, Sicily, and the Angevin realm. Dowry and dower portions (Part III) are important indicators of the power and strength of both their natal and marital families, and give an idea of the access to economic resources which could provide financial means for patronage. Having established possible emotional ties to their natal family, and the actual material resources at their disposal, the book moves on to an examination of the patronage and dynastic commemorations of Matilda, Leonor and Joanna (Parts IV-V), in order to discern patterns or parallels. Their possible involvement in the burgeoning cult of Thomas Becket, their patronage of Fontevrault Abbey, the names they gave to their children, and finally the ways in which they and their immediate families were buried, suggest that all three women were, to varying degrees, able to transplant Angevin family customs to their marital lands. The resulting study, the first of its kind to consider these women in an intergenerational dynastic context, advances the hypothesis that there may have been stronger emotional ties within the Angevin family than has previously been allowed for.

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— Henry II of England

"Yes, I completely agree that monarchy is, in general, unsustainable; no matter how robust the system is, it's ultimately dependent on the person on the throne not being a malicious idiot, and given enough generations you're bound to get one eventually. However, I personally am a just monarch, so as long as I live forever that's that problem solved. Now pass the mercury."

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Edward of Caernarvon (later Edward II of England; 1284-1327) by Frances Brundage.