![]() Together with the northern territories, this meant that the King of England controlled more than half of France – the so-called Angevin Empire – though still nominally as the king of France's vassal. After 1154, the King of England was also duke of Aquitaine (or Guienne), together with Poitou, Gascony, and other southern French fiefs dependent upon Aquitaine. From 1066 to 1214, the king of England held extensive fiefs in northern France, adding to Normandy the counties of Maine, Anjou, and Touraine, and the Duchy of Brittany. The relationship was never stable, and it only endured as long as the French crown was weak. ![]() ![]() Ties between France and England have been intimate since the Norman Conquest, in which William the Conqueror, the French duke of Normandy, became king of England, while also owing feudal ties to the French crown. Further information: Norman conquest of England and Hundred Years War
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