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Word: plantagenets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she became dissatisfied with her first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: Queen of Two Nations | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

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