The Plantagenets 1154-1495 Henry II to Richard III

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King Edward II and Piers Gaveston filled their empty coffers at the plunder of York in 1311.   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M373669

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In 1213 King John of England sent his submission to Pope Innocent III.
   http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M250164

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Henry the Fourth made King of England   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M130598-88

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King Edward I of England is believed to have popularized Easter Eggs as a holiday tradition beginning in 1290 when he decorated eggs in gold leaf.

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John of Gaunt holds a Court of Claims   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M815105

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Mary de Bohn was the wife of King Henry IV of England.   

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William, Count of Poitiers was the first son of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of England.   
He was born on the day August 17, 1153 that Eustace of Boulogne, King Stephen's son and heir died.

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William, Count of Poitiers was the first son of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of England. 
He was born on the day August 17, 1153 that Eustace of Boulogne, King Stephen's son and heir died.

Well, he didn't long survive him. He died before he was three. At least Eustace was an adult.

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Well, he didn't long survive him. He died before he was three. At least Eustace was an adult.

If Eustace had outlived his father and succeeded to the throne, He would have been King Eustace of England.   
What do you think of Eustace as the name of a king?

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If Eustace had outlived his father and succeeded to the throne, He would have been King Eustace of England. 
What do you think of Eustace as the name of a king?

He would have been flying solo with that name imo. The Norman and Plantagenet Kings were far too fond of the Williams, Henrys and Edwards to have gone for other variants. The exceptions like John and later Richard weren't eldest sons.

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Did Queen Eleanor of Provence save England for her husband King Henry III?

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King Edward III of England and the Countess of Salisbury   
http://www.alamy.com/edward-iii-and-the-countess-of-salisbury-image262795715.html

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How did Cecily Neville react to Richard III taking the throne?   
 

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How did Cecily Neville react to Richard III taking the throne?   
 

We don't really know. She was no fan of Elizabeth Woodville, that IS known, but what she thought about her two grandsons' disappearance, what she suspected had happened to them, nor about Richard's grabbing of Edward V's throne and titles, is just speculation.

 She didn't attend Richard's Coronation. However nothing really can be made of that as by now she was already by then pretty old by the standards of the times, and she had not been present at court occasions for many years.

Cecily was both proud, even arrogant, about bloodlines and ancestry but also extremely pious. Maybe she thought it was all God's will in that sort of pragmatic medieval way that appears so unnatural to us in modern times. Perhaps she was proud of Richard's accession. Who knows.

She survived Richard's reign and her granddaughter Elizabeth by Edward IV became Queen Consort to King Henry VII. Cecily was considered ancient when she finally died at the age of eighty, but only two of her twelve children (two daughters) were still living by then, though she had several grandchildren still alive. The times through which she lived were certainly tumultuous.

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Was Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury, abused by King Edward III of England?       

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King Henry V of England courting Katherine, the daughter of the French king     
http://www.maryevans.com/history/13901682

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An attempted assassination of King Edward I at the Holy Land   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M400963

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King John started permitting dispossessed clergy to buy back their property.   
Clergy who wished to have their lands and property free from direct royal interference were forced to hand over large portions of their revenues to the king. 

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Although Henry II was the first king of England to arrive in Ireland, his visit did not mean that royal visits would be a routine occurrence.

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Eleanor of Woodstock (1318-1355) was the daughter of King Edward II of England.   
In 1325 there were negotiations between England and Castile for Eleanor to be betrothed to King Alphonso XI of Castile. However, this did not occur due to the dowry.

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It was Christmas 1170. King Henry II of England enjoyed the performance of the jester Roland le Fartere. In return for Roland's service, King Henry gave Roland a manor of 30 acres in Suffolk.

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John of Lancaster (1389-1435) was the son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun. He was created Duke of Bedford in 1414 by his brother King Henry V.

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It was during the reign of King Edward III of England that Parliament was first split into two chambers.

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King Edward III of England created the immense St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle for the use of the Knights of his newly founded Order of the Garter.

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Mary de Bohun was the first wife of Henry Bolingbroke (the future King Henry IV of England).