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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CONQUEST OF MAINE AND THE BRETON WAR BY a curious synchronism both King Henry of France and Count Geoffrey Martel died in the course of the year 1060; and, with the disappearance of his two chief enemies of the older generation, the way was clear for William to attempt a more Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CONQUEST OF MAINE AND THE BRETON WAR BY a curious synchronism both King Henry of France and Count Geoffrey Martel died in the course of the year 1060; and, with the disappearance of his two chief enemies of the older generation, the way was clear for William to attempt a more independent course of action than he had hitherto essayed. Up to this year his policy had in great measure been governed by the movements of his overlord and the count of Anjou, both of them men who were playing their part in the political affairs of France at the time when he himself was born. From this date he becomes the definite master of his own fortunes, and the circumstances in which the king and the count left their respective territories removed any check to his enterprise and aggression which might otherwise have come from those quarters. The king was succeeded by his son Philip, at this time a child of scarcely seven years old, and the government of France during his minority was in the hands of Baldwin of Flanders, William's father- in-law. In Anjou a war of succession broke out which reduced that state to impotence for ten years. Geoffrey Martel had left no sons, but had designated as his successor another Geoffrey, nicknamed " le Barbu," the elder son of his sister Her- mengarde by Geoffrey count of the Gatinais.l The younger son, however, Fulk "le Rechin," had determined to secure the Angevin inheritance for himself, and by the time that he had accomplished his purpose most of the territorial acquisitions of Geoffrey Martel had been torn from Anjou by the neighbouring powers. Saintonge and the Gatinais fell respectively into the possession of the duke of Aquitaine and the king of France; and, more important than all, the Angevin acquisition of Maine, the greatest work Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, William-the-Conqueror-and-the-rule-of-the-Normans~~F-M-1880-1967-Stenton, 999999999, William The Conqueror And The Rule Of The Normans, Frank Merry Stenton, 1145459757, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

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2010, ISBN: 1145459757, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 614 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=32mm, Gew.=1080gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - B… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 614 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=32mm, Gew.=1080gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biography / Autobiography], Kartoniert/Broschiert<

2010, ISBN: 1145459757, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 614 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=32mm, Gew.=1080gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - B… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 614 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=32mm, Gew.=1080gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biography / Autobiography], Kartoniert/Broschiert<