History Hit | 11.06.2026 20:51
Between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta, no royal couple transformed medieval Europe more dramatically than Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England. Together they forged the Angevin Empire, a vast dominion stretching across England and much of France, and founded the Plantagenet dynasty, which would rule England for more than three centuries, from their ascension in 1154 until the death of Richard III in 1485.
