To browse Academia. Many historians have tackled the subjects of Eleanor of Aquitaine as well as the Angevin Empire. However, few have studied her role in the governance of the Plantagenet lands. The actions Eleanor took as Queen and the letters both to and from her during her marriage to Henry II will also support this argument. This paper examines the witness lists of 54 of Count Richard's charters, writs, and treaties, nearly all from after the rebellion against Henry II.
Only 48 name witnesses, yielding a total of names, only 36 of whom witnessed more than once. The most frequent names are those of knights of good birth, seeking to rise through service to their prince as local officials or in his military household. La cour Plantagenet , Actes du Collooque tenu a Thours du 30 avril au 2 mai , Aquitaine, it is certairirtu, rt" eldest son, tffi H"n y , and his brothers' Richard Lionheart, Geoffrey or nri ,uny, and the rurr-uoin, John Lackland lived apart from their parents in households of their own by the time that itrey reached adolescence.
Whatdothecareersot,t,"princes'eompanionsrevealaboutsocial mobility in the twelfth-century? Did the ptinttfy households proviie training grounds for royal officials, giving trrem access to offices, iunar, and wealth, once their masters assumed the rhrone? What role iii "]ri"r"L within it't-ptint"rv famitire play in the rise of a proto-bureaucracY? Discusses the relationships between the various peoples ruled by kings of England and their neighbours in France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
At the apex of Plantagenet power in , Henry II Plantagenet could boast that his rule encompassed all of Britain and half of France. From to , the Plantagenet dynasty solidified their authority over vast lands ceasing only after Philip II of France seized Normandy and Anjou.
Even after acquiring. A measure that medieval chroniclers used forjudging kings was success in battle. King John obviously failed this test with his loss of Normandy, , and the failure of his continental campaign. Modern scholars prefer to depict the king as an able administrator, downplaying his military activity; they continue to follow medieval writers in labelling John an incompetent general, lacking boldness, even cowardly.
