How To Use Henry ii In A Sentence
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Political hostility continued during the latter part of the reign of Henry III who succeeded John in 1216.
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HENRY II., as you know, got his name Plantagenet from his father, Geoffrey of Anjou, who used to wear a piece of planta genista in his helmet.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls
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In 1262, being the 51st of Henry III. was revived an ancient statute, called the assize of bread and ale, which, the king says in the preamble, had been made in the times of his progenitors, some time kings of England.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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He was also secretary to Becket with whom he was exiled when he fell into disfavour with Henry II.
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Thus, this Vision of Piers Plowman indicates the existence of a popular spirit which had been slowly but steadily increasing -- which sympathized with Henry II. and the priest-trammelling "Constitutions of Clarendon," even while it was ready to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket, the illustrious victim of the quarrel between Henry and his clergy.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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As the Wars of Religion rage, Marie finds that her affections have become the prize of a much smaller battle, between the Duc de Guise, the Prince, and the Duc d'Anjou played by Raphael Personnaz, who will one day ascend the throne as King Henry III.
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The need to restore royal authority, to return the realm to its condition in his grandfather's reign, was one of the main forces behind Henry II's reforms.
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The beginnings of civil war would later be dated to 5 April 1264, when Henry III's army stormed Northampton.
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The burgesses are entitled, by the charter of Henry II., to have a GUILD MERCHANT, with the usual franchises annexed, of safe transit through the kingdom, exemption from toll, pontage, and stallage; liberty to buy and sell peaceably; and power to hold a guild for the renewal of freedom to the burgesses, the confirming of by-laws, and other purposes.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
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Thus in 1217 Honorius III ordered bishops and prelates to help out the boy-king Henry III.
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This was the devastating viaticum of Pomponne de Bellievre for the dying Henry III, king of France.
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Sometimes we find a mound which seems to proclaim its position, but memory is silent, and the people of England, if the story of the chronicler be true, have to be grateful to Henry II, who set himself to work to root up and destroy very many of these adulterine castles which were the abodes of tyranny and oppression.
Vanishing England
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In 1251, a polar bear arrived in London as a gift from the king of Norway to Henry III of England.
The History of a Fallen King
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Under Bishop Henry II (1047-63), the guardian of Henry IV, the diocese secured the right of coinage was enriched by many donations; under Embrico (or Emmerich, 1063-77) the cathedral was dedicated (1065) and the canonicate and church of St. Peter and St. Felicitas were built.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The style of government directed by Henry II and his sons was exceptional for its penetrative ability and aggressive quality.
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At Lewes, on May 14th, 1264, he defeated Henry III in battle.
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Many of the constitutional conflicts in the reigns of John, Henry III, and Edward II turned on aspects of the prerogative - e.g. the king's right to tallage.
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He was also secretary to Becket with whom he was exiled when he fell into disfavour with Henry II.
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By lending large sums to Henry III and Edward I, they obtained royal patronage and protection.
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Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility.
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Henry II came to Ireland in order to secure the feudal loyalty of the Normans, and many Irish chieftains.
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It is in connexion with this expedition to Normandy that there first appears in the reign of Henry II the financial levy known as "scutage" -- a form of taxation destined to have a great influence on the financial and military history of England, and perhaps even a greater on its constitutional history.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
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The following is also a favourite ballad on the battle of Coutras and the death of Joyeuse, the magnificent favourite of Henry III., whose contemptuous remark on his effeminacy was the cause of his exposing himself in the _mêlée_.
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They were declared vassals of the empire; but the emperor, Henry III., discontented with these feudatory conquerors, engaged Leo IX. to launch the excommunication at the head of an army of Germans.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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One contemporary manuscript shows Henry II crowned by the hand of Christ.
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In 1171 King Henry II successfully asserted his lordship over his subjects who had gone to Ireland and also many of the Irish kings, thus adding Ireland to the lands of the English king.
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Henry II appointed him chancellor and made him his intimate friend and companion.
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Is he to be anathematised for rebelling against his father, Henry II, in alliance with Philip Augustus, destined to prove his bitterest and most unscrupulous opponent?
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He was the posthumous son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, fourth son of Henry II, by Constance, heiress of the Dukes of Brittany.
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Eager to share the Tower's fascinating history, there was also the task of slipping in all those intriguing tidbits -- such as Henry III's polar bear fishing for salmon in the Thames -- without breaking the narrative.
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But long after him the term highness was applied to kings of France; and some letters to Henry III. are still extant in which he is addressed by that title.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Against Henry III's orders, Guise marched on Paris.
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What no one could expect was the death, in July, of Henry II of France in an accident at a tournament.
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Henry II was the first king to be recognized as overlord of Ireland.
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The third lion was added by King Henry II to represent the duchy his wife, Eleanor, came from and is called Aquitaine.
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He managed to curry favour with a succession of kings of England and was consort to the nine-year-old monarch Henry III.
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The best even Vickers can say of her is that she was stylish and elegant and, by his reckoning, descended from Henry III.
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
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Henry III, though undeniably pious, could also be sharp-tongued and quick-tempered - he is recorded as tearing up the clothes of one of his court jesters, and throwing another into the Thames.
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Some of his prophecies appeared to be fulfilled, and his fame became so widespread that he was invited to the court of Catherine de Medicis, queen consort of Henry II of France, where he cast the horoscopes of her children.
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Henry II. was the first of the Plantagenets, and he took his name from Geoffrey of Anjou who used to wear a piece of planta genista in his cap.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls
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But this could only occur once the charter was brought back to life as a royalist manifesto after John's death by the regency government of Henry III.
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At the Treaty of Paris in 1259 Henry III accepted that he held Aquitaine as a fief of the French crown and owed liege homage.
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If they were not paid, however, mercenaries could prove disobliging, as the future Henry II discovered on his first expedition to England in 1147, when the troops he took with him failed him and fled.
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In Arthur Bryant's account, Henry III's son, Edward I, was the last of the great Plantagenets, indeed, the very "beau-ideal of a medieval king".
Great dynasties of the world: The Plantagenets
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John's son, Henry III, in the words of Sellar and Yeatman in 1066 and All That, "was a confused kind of King and is only memorable for having seized all the money in the Mint, imprisoned himself in the Tower of London and, finally, flung himself into the Bosom of the Pope".
Great dynasties of the world: The Plantagenets
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The marriage took place at Woodstock on 5 September 1186; Henry II paid for the four days of festivities and returned Edinburgh Castle as part of the bride's tocher.
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As all those who held direct of the crown by military service (for those who held "by serjeanty" appear to have been classed apart), from earls downwards, were alike "barons," the great difference in their position and importance must have led, from an early date, to their being roughly divided into "greater" and "lesser" barons, and indeed, under Henry II., the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ already distinguishes their holdings as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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HENRY II., as you know, got his name Plantagenet from his father, Geoffrey of Anjou, who used to wear a piece of planta genista in his helmet.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls
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The district known as the Laveroch remained unconquered during the time of Henry II, Richard still did not subdue it, as he lost more men in its vastness than he did fighting.
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Henry disafforested land that King John and Henry II had afforested. The Charter of the Forest in 1217 relaxed Forest Laws - there was no more death and mutilation for Forest offences.
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The country was divided by Henry II into six judicial circuits for the purpose of bringing royal justice to all regions.
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In 1154, Henry II became King of England.
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In 1586 the advocate Le Breton, in a pamphlet for which he was hanged, called Henry III "one of the greatest hypocrites who ever lived", demanded an assembly of the States General from which the royal officers should be excluded, and proposed to restore all their franchises to the cities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Henry II's attempt to reconstitute the fyrd in 1181 indicates that the system was still considered valuable.
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But Henry III was a peacemaker by temperament, and so was the papal legate, Ottobuono Fieschi, who arrived in England in October 1265.
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Now, the jinrikisha is exactly the vehicle in which one would expect to ride in this land of fairy children – large perambulators that hold one person comfortably; but instead of being trundled from behind by a white-capped nursemaid, one of the Henry II. gentlemen, who wears also straw sandals and an enormous blue mushroom hat on his head, ensconces himself between the little shafts in front and prances noiselessly away with it.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Madrid 4. This château was the seat of Henry II, Angevin King and King of England, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was here that Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself king and raise an army to liberate France; in 1562, Henri IV turned it into a state prison.
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Drawn by Matthew Paris, a historian and an advisor to Henry III, it is almost a rough guide to getting there through Kent, France and Italy to the boat in Apulia, showing the must-see landmarks en route.
British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages
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Later he followed the duke to his domain in Poland, and when the death of Charles IX made the duke King of France, under the name Henry III, Mayenne escorted him thither.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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In 1784, a woman named Jeanne de la Motte, who claimed to be a descendant of King Henry II of France, and liked to use the name Valois, became the mistress of Cardinal de Rohan.
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King Henry III is said to have granted a market charter to the town in 1227.
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Many of the major characters are historical figures, notably Llewellyn and David, their mother Lady Senena and their two other brothers Owen Goch “Owen the Red” and Rhodri, and King Henry III of England.
Sunrise in the West, by Edith Pargeter. Book review
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Following the death of Stephen's son, Eustace, he agreed that Henry should succeed him; he was crowned Henry II of England in 1154.
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Henry III took the hansa of London under his special protection and promised the Flemish traders that they should not be molested even if war broke out between England and France, unless Flanders took an active part in the conflict.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
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Grolier, Maioli, Lauwrin, Canevari, De Thou, Peiresc, and other distinguished collectors, and also examples of bindings bearing the arms and devices of Francis I. of France, Henry II. and Diana of Poitiers,
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These love poems are believed to have been composed by a poet at the court of King Henry II.
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Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Mortimer was one of the most powerful marcher barons of Henry III's reign and preoccupied with resisting Welsh advance.
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In 1254, local landowner Richard Rochelle was granted a charter to hold a market in the village from the reigning monarch of the day, Henry III.