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Updated: May 6, 2025
One of the few poetic legends that break the stern story of the Angevins is the tale of Count Fulc the Good, how, journeying along Loire-side towards Tours, he saw just as the towers of St. Martin's rose before him in the distance a leper full of sores, who put by his offer of alms and desired to be borne to the sacred city.
Meanwhile the same young mothers were going to lectures on the Angevins, or reading Goethe or Dante in the evenings a few friends together, gathering at each other's houses; then were discussing politics and social reform; and generally doing their best unconsciously to silence the croakers and misogynists who maintained that when all the girl babies in the perambulators were grown up, and Oxford was flooded with womenkind like all other towns, Oxford would have gone to "Death and damnation."
"Hang all the Angevins!" cried Catherine, in amazement. "Yes, hang, slay, massacre, burn; already, perhaps, my friends are out to begin the work." "They will ruin themselves, and you with them." "How so?" "Blind! Will kings eternally have eyes, and not see?" "Kings must avenge their injuries, it is but justice, and in this case all my subjects will rise to defend me." "You are mad." "Why so?"
I have shorn many a crown, but I have kept my own hair as yet, you see." "I do see," said she, playing with his locks. "But, but he wants you. He has sent for Angevins, Poitevins, Bretons, Flemings, promising lands, rank, money, what not. Tosti is recruiting for him here in Flanders now. He will soon be off to the Orkneys, I suspect, or to Sweyn in Denmark, after Vikings." "Here?
Well, to-morrow, at least " "To-day, you mean." "Well! to-day I shall be tranquil." "Why so?" "Because those cursed Angevins will be killed." "You think so, Henri?" "I am sure of it; my friends are brave." "I never heard that the Angevins were cowards." "No, doubtless; but my friends are so strong; look at Schomberg's arm; what muscle!" "Ah! if you saw Autragues's! Is that all that reassures you?"
The Norman nobility, moved by an hereditary animosity against the Angevins, first applied to Theobald, Count of Blois, Stephen's elder brother, for protection and assistance; but hearing afterwards that Stephen had got possession of the English crown, and having many of them the same reasons as formerly for desiring a continuance of their union with that kingdom, they transferred their allegiance to Stephen, and put him in possession of their government.
By threats of war, Henry obtained for Geoffrey, his third son, Constance, the only child of Conan, Duke of Brittany; though the Bretons, who hated Normans, Angevins, and English with equal bitterness, were extremely angry at finding themselves thus connected with all three.
But, interesting as these relics are, it is not ecclesiastical Angers that the English traveller instinctively looks for; it is the Angers of the Counts, the birthplace of the Plantagenets. It is only in their own capital indeed that we fully understand our Angevin Kings, that we fully realize that they were Angevins.
And your friends, crying thus through the city, will raise that nice little civil war of which MM. de Guise have so much need, and which they did not succeed in raising for themselves. Besides which, your friends may get killed, which would not displease me, I confess, but which would afflict you, or else they will chase all the Angevins from the city, which will please M. d'Anjou enormously."
He inherited indeed from the Angevins their fierce and passionate wrath; his punishments, when he punished in anger, were without pity; and a priest who ventured at a moment of storm into his presence with a remonstrance dropped dead from sheer fright at his feet. But his nature had nothing of the hard selfishness, the vindictive obstinacy which had so long characterized the house of Anjou.
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