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Definition of Angevin
1. Noun. A resident of Anjou.
Group relationships: Anjou
Generic synonyms: French Person, Frenchman, Frenchwoman
Definition of Angevin
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Anjou (province and House) ¹
2. Noun. A native or resident of Anjou ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angevin
Literary usage of Angevin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Norman Institutions by Charles Homer Haskins (1918)
"... the way to Angevin influence in the affairs of the duchy and to the possible
modification of Norman institutions in accordance with Angevin practice. ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"With the accession of the Foreign Angevin dynasty a new state of things begins.
England Of tne *• • practically and Normandy were for a short time merely ..."
3. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth Meyer Setton (1984)
"THE SICILIAN VESPERS AND A CENTURY OF Angevin DECLINE (1282-1383) ON EASTER
MONDAY, 30 March, 1282, a crowd was gathering in the square by the century-old ..."
4. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"It passed into vassalage to the Angevin crown, and was held, sometimes by the
Neapolitan kings themselves, sometimes by princes of their house—some of them ..."
5. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: Its Causes, and Its by Augustin Thierry (1847)
"... an Angevin chief—His character — Angevin monks established at Spalding—Hereward,
chief of the Saxon partisans —Anglo-Saxon ..."
6. Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1900)
"On Henry II see AS Green, Henry II; K. Norgate, England under the Angevin Kings.
Henry retained the habit of constantly moving about until the end of his ..."
7. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... the woman of the guild aided in securing by another in the centuries which
marked the rule of the Angevin kings; and in both Norman and Angevin times ..."
8. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1890)
"6 Upon the Angevin marriage, see Green's brilliant pages, Hist, of Eng. People,
... Stephen : the anarchy. The oath to Matilda. The Angevin marriage. ..."
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