Volume III · The Houses
House of Plantagenet
Anjou, France; ruling England from 1154 (Henry II) through Richard III in 1485, including the Lancaster and York cadet branches.
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01How it began
Anjou, France; ruling England from 1154 (Henry II) through Richard III in 1485, including the Lancaster and York cadet branches.
02At its height
12th-14th centuries; under Henry II the Angevin Empire stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees, and Edward III opened the Hundred Years' War with victories such as Crecy (1346).
Territory in the record
England, large parts of France (Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine), and lordship over Wales and Ireland.
03What became of it
The dynasty consumed itself in the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487); Richard III died at Bosworth Field in 1485, ending Plantagenet rule.
04What remained
Magna Carta (1215), the emergence of Parliament, English common law, and the long Anglo-French rivalry.
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Coat of armsThree lions of EnglandEnglish royal arms from the late 12th centuryRead the symbolClose the story
Three gold lions on red, walking with one forepaw raised and their faces turned toward the viewer: the heraldic pose called passant guardant.
Historic Royal Palaces identifies these arms with King John, Henry III and Edward I. Later royal shields combined them with other claims; this plate isolates the English design.
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