The Angevin kings had three main sources of income available to them, namely revenue from their personal lands, or demesne ; money raised through their rights as a feudal lord ; and revenue from taxation.

The Norman and Angevin kings had traditionally exercised a great deal of power over the church within their territories.

A condottiero from Romagna, he served the Angevin kings of Naples and became the most successful dynast of the condottieri.

He was succeeded by Matilda's son, Henry II, the first of the Angevin kings.

Though Elizabeth was not the daughter of Sigismund's first wife Mary of Hungary and thus not a member of the royal Angevin dynasty, she descended from the old Arpád kings of Hungary.

* Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England

Here Gerald is frequently critical of the rule of the Angevin kings, a shift from his earlier praise of Henry II in theTopographia Hibernica.

The Angevin kings of Naples subsequently gave Achaea as their fief to a series of their own relatives and creatures, who fought against Princess Margaret of Villehardouin and her heirs.

Royal protection was usually granted as the Norman and Angevin kings had determined that Jewish property and debts owed to Jews ultimately belonged to the crown, reverting to the king on a Jew's death.

Here we are close to Anjou, the home of the Angevin kings of England beginning with Henry II.

Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey ( sometimes Hamelin of Anjou and, anachronistically, Hamelin Plantagenet ( c. 1129 — 1202 ) was an English nobleman who was prominent at the courts of the Angevin kings of England, Henry II, Richard I, and John.

In the 14th century, at the time of the Angevin kings of Hungary, the castle became a royal residence and was enlarged with a new curtain wall and palace buildings.

The origins of such a deterioration can be traced back to the fall of the Árpád ruling dynasty and their subsequent replacement with the Angevin and Jagiellonian kings.

After immigration from the nearby Canne increased its population due to the destruction of Cannae by the Normans, Barletta lived its periods of greatest splendour under emperor Frederick II and then subsequently the Angevin kings of Naples.

After the Norman dynasty Aversa declined in importance: the Angevin kings of Naples came to Aversa mostly to hunt and hold court in the citadel, of which a few traces remain in via Roma in Aversa's historic centre.

This episode marked the end of Coutances ' service to the Angevin kings ; for the rest of his life the archbishop focused on protecting and guarding the archiepiscopal properties and rights.

Under Angevin lordship things became even more clear as the balance of power was dramatically set in France and the Angevin kings often spent more times in France than England.

Elisabeth was not the daughter of her father's first wife Mary of Hungary, and thus not descended from Angevin kings of Hungary ( but in many ways, she descended from the old Árpád kings of Hungary ).

By royal intervention, she was married in 1444 to Ferdinand I of Naples, the illegitimate son of King Alfonso V of Aragon, who had seized Southern Italy from its Angevin kings in the 1430s and 1440s.

Her brother Walter VI of Brienne gradually gained better positions, and by allying with the Angevin kings of Naples, recovered some Italian fiefs.

Although Philip was recognized as emperor by the Latin possessions in Greece, much of the actual authority devolved on the Angevin kings of Naples and Sicily.

He brought Jerusalem into the sphere of the Angevin Empire, as the father of Geoffrey V of Anjou and grandfather of the future Henry II of England.

Through the marriage of his son, Fulk III, to Elisabeth the heiress of Vendôme Geoffrey brought that county into the Angevin sphere of influence.

Ranulf brought a number of Welsh magnates into the civil war, initially on the Angevin side.

The latter rumour also seems to the basis of the account of Orderic Vitalis ; according to him, Hugh and other nobles were offended by Fulk, who brought Angevin nobles and counsellors with him when he became king, and ignored the native barons of the kingdom.

The early Gothic, what in England would be called Early English but in Laval is Angevin Gothic, is to be seen in la Trinité.

This trend for the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia – " anger and ill-will " – and John's own personality.

According to Joanna's biographer Nancy Goldstone, shortly after her coronation, the Queen continued the Angevin tradition of constructing churches and other public edifices including hospitals, employing the use of celebrated artisans.

John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement ; from then onwards, most observers regarded John as Henry II's favourite child, although he was the furthest removed in terms of the royal succession.

Modern historians remain divided as to whether John suffered from a case of " royal schizophrenia " in his approach to government, or if his actions merely reflected the complex model of Angevin kingship in the early 13th century.

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

Significantly, the lack of any direct heirs from Richard was the first step in the dissolution of the Angevin Empire.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

The king's eventual release resulted from the Angevin defeat at the rout of Winchester.

Queen Matilda and William of Ypres then encircled the Angevin forces with their own army, reinforced with fresh troops from London.

* 1204 — Fall of Normandy from Angevin hands to the French King, Philip Augustus, end of Norman domination of France.

The popes bought Avignon from the Angevin ruler for 80, 000 florins in 1348.

At its peak, the Angevin Empire then spread from Ulster to the Pyrenees.

The Angevin house was forever ousted from Sicily.

Beginning with the subsequent Angevin rule, which ruled Calabria as part of the Kingdom of Naples, Calabria was ruled from Naples right up until unification with Italy.

Conflict between the Hohenstaufen house and the Papacy, led in 1266 to Pope Innocent IV crowning Angevin Dynasty duke Charles I as the king of the kingdom: Charles officially moved the capital from Palermo to Naples where he resided at the Castel Nuovo.

The rebellion seems, however, to have drawn strength from much deeper discontent with his father's rule, and a formidable party of Anglo-Norman, Norman, Angevin, Poitevin and Breton magnates joined him.

" He had used threats against the recalcitrant bishops, and in the war against the Angevin party had demanded contributions from religious houses ; these facts perhaps suffice to account for the verdict of the chronicler.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

Matilda was using the royal castle in the city of Winchester as a base for her operations, but shortly afterwards Queen Matilda and William of Ypres then encircled the Angevin forces with their own army, reinforced with fresh troops from London.