Plantagenet

NOUN
  1. the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485
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  • I called the Plantagenet, and ascended it through La Salle, Marquette, and Assawa Lakes to a small creek at the foot of the Hauteur des Terres. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
  • [Footnote: The name Plantagenet came from the peculiar badge, a sprig of broom-plant (_plante de genet_), adopted by one of the early members of the House. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • It was all a gesture towards Edward Plantagenet likewise.
  • Also, if a Shield charged with an escarbuncle and many lioncels, which has been assigned to GEOFFREY Count of ANJOU, was really borne by the Founder of the House of PLANTAGENET, The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Geoffrey of Anjou, his appearance and character; married to Empress Maude; origin of his surname Plantagenet; death. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
  • The Latin name for broom is planta genista, and gradually it came to be pronounced Plantagenet. An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls
  • Edith was understood to be an orphan; and though she was called Plantagenet, and the Fair Maid of Anjou, and admitted by Richard to certain privileges only granted to the royal family, and held her place in the circle accordingly, yet few knew; and none acquainted with the Court of England ventured to ask, in what exact degree of relationship she stood to Cur de Lion. The Talisman
  • Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
  • A moated palace was built at Eltham which became a favourite home of Plantagenet monarchs during the 14th and 15th centuries.
  • It was said, a few years ago, that a Plantagenet was a butcher in a suburb of London. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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