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Henry II ascended the throne. The Plantagenets held the English throne from 1154, until 1485 when Richard III died.
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Geoffrey V, became Duke of Normandy .
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Henry,who was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda ,married Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Henry restored the royal administration in England, re-established hegemony over Wales and gained full control over his lands in Anjou, Maine and Touraine.
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Henry was in control of England, large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and the western half of France.
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"Young Henry",Henry's heir, rebelled in protest together with his brothers Richard and Geoffrey and their mother, Eleanor.
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Young Henry and Geoffrey revolted again and Henry died.
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A final rebellion broke out .After being defeated,Henry retreated to Chinon in Anjou, where he died. His brother Jhon took the throne.
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John lost the Angevins' continental territories, including Anjou, to the French crown.
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After being defeated by the French his position was weak. Magna Carta was the result of the rebellion of his English vassals , which limited royal power and established common law. This would form the basis of every constitutional battle of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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After Jhon's death Civil war broke out with the barons aided by Louis of France.
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Henry III, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death.Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War.
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In 1264 Henry was defeated and taken prisoner in the Second Barons' War.
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Henry died in 1272, leaving Edward as his successor.
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From 1272 to 1307 Edward was king of England.He reformed royal administration and common law.
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Edward subjected Wales to English rule, built a series of castles and towns in the countryside and settled them with English people.
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When the King died in 1307 he left his son Edward II, a war with Scotland and many financial and political problems.
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Edward ascended after his father's death. He married Isabella of France, in 1308 ,to resolve the problems with the french.
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Edward was forced to relinquish his crown in January 1327 in favour of his son, Edward III, and he died in Berkeley Castle on 21 September, probably murdered on the orders of the new regime.
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Edward III restored royal authority and had military success,transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe.
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Around 1376 Edward III felt ill with a large abscess. After a brief period of recovery in 1377, the king died of a stroke.
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Richard II was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed on 30 September 1399. Richard gradually re-established royal authority in the months after the deliberations of the Merciless Parliament.
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He is thought to have starved to death in captivity on around 14 February 1400,
