Angevin Definition

ănjə-vĭn
adjective
Relating to the historical region and former province of Anjou, France.
American Heritage
Of or from Anjou.
Webster's New World
Relating to the House of Anjou, especially as represented by the Plantagenet kings of England descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou (died 1151).
American Heritage
Of or belonging to the Plantagenet line of English kings (1154-1399)
Webster's New World

Of or pertaining to Anjou (province and House)

Wiktionary
noun
A person born or living in Anjou.
Webster's New World
A person of the Plantagenet royal line.
Webster's New World

A native or resident of Anjou.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • angevine

Origin of Angevin

  • French from Old French from Medieval Latin Andegavīnus from Andegavia , Anjou, France

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Angevin Sentence Examples

  • An Angevin fleet and army, under Robert's son Charles, was defeated at Palermo by Giovanni da Chiaramonte in 1325, and in 1326 and 1327 there were further Angevin raids on the island, until the descent into Italy of the emperor Louis the Bavarian distracted their attention.

  • In the meanwhile Ruggiero di Lauria appeared before Naples and destroyed another Angevin fleet commanded by Charles's son, who was taken prisoner (May 1284).

  • Louis, who had hoped that Aquitaine would descend to his daughters, was mortified and alarmed by the Angevin marriage; all the more so when Henry of Anjou succeeded to the English crown in 1154.

  • In 1199 she crushed an Angevin rising in favour of John's nephew, Arthur of Brittany.

  • But the marriage proved childless, and the empress Matilda was designated as her father's successor, the English baronage being compelled to do her homage both in 1126, and again, after the Angevin marriage, in 1131.

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