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On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau ; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.
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