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House of Plantagenet
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Definition:[1154 - 1485]an English dynasty, from Henry II through Richard III (who died at the battle of Bosworth, thus ending the so-called war of the roses).The dynasty originated in Anjou, France. The Magna Carta, which constrained the powers of the monarchy, was negotiated during this time.
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Archbishop: (impatiently) Do you, Edmund Plantagenet, take Maria Escalosa...
Don: Usted, Edmundo Plantagenato...
Archbishop: Oh, do shut up!
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Queen of Spain's Beard.
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with manners like his, if he had not given himself away, one might easily have taken him for a descendant of the Plantagenets.
Grant Allen. The British Barbarians
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He had, certainly, no idea of being jealous of Odette, but did not feel quite so happy as usual, and when Brichot, having begun to tell them the story of Blanche of Castile’s mother, who, according to him, “had been with Henry Plantagenet for years before they were married,” tried to prompt Swann to beg him to continue the story, by interjecting “Isn’t that so, M. Swann?”
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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