Scots own parks in a wholly historic part of France

Usage examples of aquitaine.

King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine, Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine, suzerain lord of Britanny, Henry found himself at twenty-one ruler of dominions such as no king before him had ever dreamed of uniting.

Richard received Aquitaine, and Geoffrey was set over Britanny under his elder brother as overlord.

In 1182 Henry sought once more to define the authority of his sons, and to assert the unity of the Empire under his own supremacy by ordering Richard and Geoffrey to do homage to their brother for Aquitaine and Britanny.

The nobles of Aquitaine, weary of the severe rule of Richard, had long plotted to set in his place his gentler brother Henry, and the young king, along with Geoffrey, lent himself openly to the conspiracy.

Richard should do homage directly to him as sovereign lord of Aquitaine, and determined to assert his rights over the lands so long debated of Berri and Auvergne.

After the death of the young king a precarious peace was established in Aquitaine, and Henry returned to England.

The region of France where they now were, Aquitaine, was originally the Roman colony of Aquitania.

He had lived at the splendid courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Duc de Berry.

He said that Sir James was long since dead of camp fever during the War of the Three Marriages in service with the army fielded by Duke Henry Tudor in Aquitaine and France.

It had been decided by all and sundry in England, Wales, and Aquitaine, at that point, to hold fire and wait to see what might now develop in the changed circumstances.

It had been for this reason that Duke Arthur Tudor of Aquitaine had been already in Englandthough none within the court circles and very few others anywhere else had known of his presencewhen the sudden death of King Richard was announced along with the fact that the royal council had met and declared that they had intent of summoning Duke Arthur back from his duchy.

Roman chapels are somehow harder than the ones in Aquitaine ever were.

Even when the French finally offered to pay the arrears on Jean’s ransom and guarantee peaceable possession if not sovereignty of Aquitaine, in return for the razing of Calais, the English held back.

They were a maze of often disconnected authorisations, easily made incompre hensible for the uninitiated, and during the next few minutes THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION 93 he intended to baffle this disciple of George Marcus Delavane warlord of Saigon until the soldier s trace of fear became something far more pronounced.

By agreement, the second report issued across the free THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION 697 world made a direct but on Converses insistence brief reference to his role in the tragedy that was AQUITAINE.