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illustratus · 29 days

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Henry II the Pious departing for Legnica by Jan Matejko

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stephantom · 20 days

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Eleanor: You'd only just found Rosamund. Henry: Not her so damn particularly. I found other women. Eleanor: Countless others. Henry: What's your count?

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#the lion in winter #peter o'toole #katharine hepburn #becket #eleanor of aquitaine #king henry ii #henry ii #thomas becket #rosamund #filmedit #peter o’toole #becket 1964 #things i made #peter o’toole as henry ii cinematic universe

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baublecoded · 5 months

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FILTH TEACHES FILTH.

#henry ii #geoffrey of brittany #richard i #king john #henry the young king #henry iii #vibes

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cesareeborgia · 1 year

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↳ a brief guide to house plantagenet history: the anarchy (part 1)

#house plantagenet #henry i #henry ii #stephen i #empress matilda #matilda of boulogne #eleanor of aquitaine #the anarchy #white ship #english history #history #historicalevents*#plantagenetguide*#my gifs #creations*

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artschoolglasses · 3 months

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Armour of Henry II, King of France, circa 1555

From the Met Museum

#armour #1555 #1550s #1500s #16th century #history #museum #henry ii #henry ii of france #henri ii #henri ii of france

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guy60660 · 3 months

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Etienne Delaune | Henry II

#design #henry ii #Etienne Delaune

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catherinesvalois · 2 years

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A man who ate my bread. A man I raised from nothing. A man I loved. Yes, I loved him. BECKET (1964)

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catherinetheprincessofwales · 11 months

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William, The Conqueror to Catherine, The Princess of Wales ⤜ The Princess of Wales is William I's 27th Great-Granddaughter via her paternal grandfather’s line.

William the Conqueror (m. Matilda of Flanders)

Henry I, King of England (m. Matilda of Scotland)

Empress Matilda (m. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou)

Henry II, King of England (m. Eleanor of Aquitaine)

John I, King of England (m. Isabella of Angoulême)

Henry III, King of England (m. Eleanor of Provence)

Edmund, Earl of Lancaster (m. Blanche of Artois)

Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster (m. Matilda de Chaworth)

Mary of Lancaster, Baroness Percy (m. Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy) - Coat of Arms

Sir Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (m. Margaret de Neville)

Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy (m. Elizabeth Mortimer)

Sir Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (m. Lady Eleanor Neville) - Coat of Arms

Sir Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (m. Eleanor, Baroness Poynings) - Coat of Arms

Lady Margaret Percy (m. Sir William Gascoigne)

Agnes Gascoigne (m. Sir Thomas Fairfax) - Gawthorpe Hall, family seat.

William Fairfax (m. Anne Baker) - Gilling Castle, family seat.

John Fairfax (m. Mary Birch) Master of the Great Hospital at Norwich, Norfolk

Rev. Benjamin Fairfax (m. Sarah Galliard), Preacher at Rumburgh, Suffolk.

Benjamin Fairfax (m. Bridget Stringer) died in Halesworth, Suffolk.

Sarah Fairfax (m. Rev. John Meadows) died in Ousedon, Suffolk.

Philip Meadows (m. Margaret Hall)

Sarah Meadows (m. Dr. David Martineau)

Thomas Martineau (m. Elizabeth Rankin) buried at Rosary Cemetery, Norwich.

Elizabeth Martineau (m. Dr. Thomas Michael Greenhow) died in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Frances Elizabeth Greenhow (m. Francis Lupton)

Francis Martineau Lupton (m. Harriet Albina Davis)

Olive Christina Lupton (m. Richard Noel Middleton)

Peter Francis Middleton (m. Valerie Glassborow)

Michael Francis Middleton (m. Carole Elizabeth Goldsmith)

The Princess of Wales m. The Prince of Wales

#this took wayyy to long #princess of wales #william the conqueror #history #ancestry #pictures #people #brf #british royal family #empress matilda #henry ii #henry i #john i #king of england #henry iii #hotspur #KTD

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princesssarisa · 11 months

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The opera Rigoletto is based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse.

The character in the play who became the opera's Duke of Mantua is King Francis I of France. (The opera had to change the setting to Mantua and demote the king to a duke because the censors of the era wouldn't allow such a negative portrayal of a king, or a nearly successful attempt to assassinate him, to be shown onstage.)

King Francis I is also the king in the movie Ever After: A Cinderella Story – the father of Prince Henry, the future King Henry II. Obviously, by the time Ever After takes place, his days as the handsome womanizer Hugo's play depicts were behind him.

Ever After's heroine Danielle de Barbarac is a fictional character, but apparently she's loosely inspired by Diane de Poitiers, the real Henry II's beloved mistress. She was known as a highly intelligent woman and as Henry's unofficial advisor as well as his bedmate. The movie just sanitizes the situation and makes it fit the Cinderella story by removing Henry's arranged marriage to Catherine de Medici and having him marry Danielle instead.

And who was Diane de Poitiers's father? Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint-Vallier. In Hugo's play, he's the character who corresponds to Rigoletto's Monterone.

Of course Victor Hugo had entirely different goals in writing Le roi s'amuse than the screenwriters of Ever After did fort their "realistic fairy tale." It's hard to imagine the hot-tempered yet ultimately good-hearted old king in Ever After as having once been the charming yet ruthless young rake from Hugo's play and Verdi's opera, and whether either of them resembles the real Francis I or not I don't know.

I just think it's funny that this connection exists between Rigoletto and Ever After, of all things.

(P.S. I wonder what King Francis would think of the fact that not only does Verdi's opera demote a character who was meant to be him to a mere duke, but that so many modern productions of that opera have demoted him even further, portraying him as a Mafia boss, a movie studio mogul, a Frank Sinatra-style singer, etc.)

@leporellian

#opera #rigoletto #le roi s'amuse #victor hugo #ever after: a cinderella story #cinderella #francis i #henry ii #diane de poitiers #french history

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henryfitzempress · 8 months

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Moodboard: Henry II, King of England (1154-1189).

#plantagenet dynasty #plantagenets #plantagenet #house of plantagenet #middle ages #medieval england #Henry fitzempress #Henry II of England #Henry II #King Henry #King Henry II #King Henry II of England #Moodboard #Plantagenet edit

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wishesofeternity · 9 months

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“Few figures experienced such a dramatic and disastrous turn of the wheel of fortune as did Eleanor of Aquitaine in the autumn of 1173, when she fell from her place as Henry’s assistant in ruling his collection of territories to detention as his prisoner in Chinon Castle. Eleanor inspired and participated in her sons’ rebellion of 1173–74 that became a widespread revolt against Henry. Spreading throughout his domains, it was the greatest challenge to his authority that he would face until his last days. The record of the royal couple’s sons for rebellions against their father and for fighting each other is almost unequaled in medieval history, and the queen’s active part in a revolt against her royal husband was near unimaginable to contemporaries. Writers ever since have accused the English queen of fomenting her sons’ rebellion, and the family’s troubles are still so notorious that they are a subject for films and plays. The chronicler Ralph Diceto writing not many years after the revolt admitted that young Richard, count of Poitou, and Geoffrey of Brittany in fleeing to Paris to join their elder brother in 1173 were “following the advice of their mother Eleanor.” He then listed over thirty instances of sons rebelling against their parents, but was unable to specify a single case of an earlier queen rebelling against her royal husband.

The dysfunctional character of the family life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II, and their sons was no secret to their contemporaries. One late twelfth-century monastic writer likened the English royal family to “the confused house of Oedipus,” and another commented that “this father was most unhappy in his most famous sons.” Courtiers at the English royal court could only explain the intense hostility by recalling an Angevin legend of the Plantagenet family’s diabolical descent, having as ancestor a demon-countess of Anjou. In fact, Henry was largely an absentee father during his sons’ early years, and following aristocratic custom, he was content to leave their upbringing in others’ hands. Once his sons became adolescents, they resented their father’s refusal to share power with them, denying them authority over the lands that he had designated for them in various partition schemes.

- Ralph V. Turner, “Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England”

#historicwomendaily #history #eleanor of aquitaine #henry ii #angevin empire #ig #english history #queue

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illustratus · 11 days

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Henry II of France mortally wounded - The Fatal Tournament between Henry II and Count of Montgomery (Lord of Lorges)

by Frans Hogenberg

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stephantom · 27 days

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#becket #becket 1964 #henry ii #peter o'toole #lol sorry this is dumb and just for me really #but it’s all I could think when I saw the post pouring water on the below post

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baublecoded · 5 months

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#henry ii #richard i #eleanor of aquitaine #geoffrey of brittany #henry the young king #vibes

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mayfriend · 9 months

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sometimes i remember that brian cox's first non-stage role was as henry ii in the devil's crown, and that he's now the exact right age to play henry ii in the lion in winter, and yet absolutely nobody in hollywood has put these two facts together and done anyfuckingthing about it

#if i don't get to see him as henry ii again what is the POINT #also watch the devil's crown #emily speaks #brian cox #henry ii #the lion in winter #the devil's crown #i am usually anti-remake if the original is good (which it is!! the lion in winter is a masterpiece!!) but i nEED IT #you people want more logan roy?? THATS HENRY II IN THE LION IN WINTER. THATS THE CHARACTER ARCHETYPE BABY

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laufire · 2 years

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hi yes I’m obsessed with them

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[Caption: screenshots of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitania in The Lion in Winter. They’re talking alone, next to a Christmas tree, sitting close together.

Henry: How hard do you find living in your castle?

Eleanor: It was difficult in the beginning, but that’s passed. I find I’ve seen the world enough!

Henry: I’ll never let you loose (pause where they look at each other affectionately). You led too many civil wars against me.

Eleanor: (making him smile) And I damn near won the last one. Still, as long as I get trotted out for Christmas courts and state occasions now and then! For I do like to see you. That’s enough.

Eleanor: I’m famished. Let’s go in to dinner.

Henry; (taking her hand) Arm-in-arm.

Eleanor: (putting both of her hands on his arm) And hand-in-hand. You’re still a marvel of a man.

Henry: And you’re my lady.]

#unfortunately i'm going to have to pause the film now and resume later #but i'm very 👀👀👀#i would've guessed i'd like them giving the givens but. i did NOT expect the affection lmao #that took me out *-*#talking to the void #my thoughts #the lion in winter #peter o'toole #katharine hepburn #eleanor of aquitaine #henry ii #movies #captioned

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