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Archaeologists Have Uncovered A Royal Palace Used By King Henry II
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| 9-23-2007
Posted on 09/23/2007 1:38:57 PM PDT by blam
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To: GreyFriar
Thanks for the ping. This is an interesting find.
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posted on
09/23/2007 5:59:56 PM PDT
by
zot
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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posted on
09/23/2007 6:39:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Henry II, first of the Plantagenet kings, was a (distaff) grandson of Henry I, b 1133, reigned 1154-1189 (35 years!), died at 55 or 56.
http://www.genealogyinengland.com/Information/plantagenet.htm
Edwards II and III are estimated to have literally millions of descendants in the US alone, which means that Henry II (their ancestor) does also. :’)
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09/23/2007 6:59:24 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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09/23/2007 7:00:05 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Verginius Rufus
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome Priest???!!!”
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:06:05 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: blam
"The cellar has been excavated........"
.......and still no Jimmy Hoffa.
Leni
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:09:50 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:11:03 PM PDT
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: Verginius Rufus
Henry II had more of France under his control than did the French king Louis VII (who had been married to Eleanor earlier). Eleanor of Aquitane owned more of France than both of them combined.
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:12:15 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: SunkenCiv
He looks to have reddish hair and is wearing rouge on his cheeks and lips. Interesting break in his beard at the chin - is it to show off the Adam’s apple?
To: blam
I saw both Lion in Winter and Becket when the films first came out in theaters. My high school teachers gave us extra credit for going.
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:31:14 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: ValerieTexas
Interesting portrait, but it was painted in 1620, so I am thinking that it probably doesn’t look to much like Henry. Henry, Eleanor and Richard are buried at Fontevrault, Anjou, France. Their effigies would probably be more representative of how they looked without the coloring, of course.
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:33:41 PM PDT
by
Tully Pettigrew 1
(I used to care, but now I take a pill for that. ( Hunter /2008))
To: Ciexyz
Peter O’Toole played Henry in both movies and I have been a fan ever since. What a great actor he is. Richard Burton played Becket, and not too shabbily either. Together these two were dynamite.
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posted on
09/23/2007 7:38:05 PM PDT
by
Tully Pettigrew 1
(I used to care, but now I take a pill for that. ( Hunter /2008))
To: ValerieTexas
Hank’s g-father was Henry I; Henry I was grandson to William the Conqueror / Usurper / Bastard; William was a descendant of Hrolf the Ganger, who was indeed a Viking adventurer, who carved a realm out of a chunk of France, and is an ancestor of many a royal house. Some of his descendants wound up ruling a short-lived Viking kingdom in Sicily (two kings, both named Roger). So, anyway, yeah, he could have had red hair; dunno about surviving descriptions.
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09/23/2007 7:39:09 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Tully Pettigrew 1
Richard Burton was very good in 50’s films such as The Robe and Alexander. By the time Liz Taylor and he hooked up, he was portraying aging alcoholics in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff, a film I only saw just recently on DVD - too adult for me at the time it came out, but well-done I must say.
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posted on
09/23/2007 8:05:00 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: SunkenCiv
The Norman kingdom of southern Italy and Sicily was not too shabby by the standards of that period. Gregory VII is buried in the Norman cathedral in Salerno (built only about a year before his death)...he was forced to flee Rome and take refuge with his Norman allies. The cathedral in Palermo has a bunch of royal sarcophagi of that dynasty. The most notable of the batch was Frederick II in the early 13th century--Stupor Mundi.
To: Verginius Rufus
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09/23/2007 8:39:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Excellent! It’s nice to have more information about the nuts on the tree. ;o]
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posted on
09/24/2007 6:21:19 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(My sex life isn't dead, but the buzzards are circling.)
To: SunkenCiv
The Angevin Empire was quite something at its height. A number of English Kings were preoccupied with trying to restore it, including including fighting the Hundred Years War and the exploits of Henry V. England spent a lot of manpower and treasure trying to keep a presence in France.
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posted on
09/24/2007 9:13:50 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: SunkenCiv
Through a possible family connection, Henry II could be my 26th Great Grandfather.
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posted on
09/24/2007 12:57:04 PM PDT
by
ODC-GIRL
(Proudly serving our Nation's Homeland Defense)
To: Ciexyz
I had forgotten about The Robe, yes that was a great film. Have you ever seen Night of the Iguana? I can’t figure out why he never won an Academy Award, he was one of the finest actors ever. I had the privilege to see him play Hamlet in an off Broadway production, and at one point during the play, he hopped into a chair and started jumping up and down. I though it odd, but every production is different so I didn’t think much of it.
A few nights later Richard Burton was being interviewed on TV by Merv Griffin. Griffin asked Burton if doing the same role over and over again each night became boring at all. Richard Burton told Griffin that as long as the audience wasn’t bored he wasn’t either. Than he proceeded to tell Griffin that a few days prior he had an audience of high school students who he felt were bored, so he “hopped into a chair and starting jumping up and down to get their attention back.” I thought, OMG, that was the performance we were at, and that’s why he was jumping up and down in the chair. We made him do it. LOL!
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posted on
09/24/2007 1:31:43 PM PDT
by
Tully Pettigrew 1
(I used to care, but now I take a pill for that. ( Hunter /2008))
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