Henry II was called "FitzEmpress" because her mother Mathilda's(1102-67) first husband, Holy Roman emperor Henry V(1081/84-1125, r. 1105-25, right on the picture on right) was much more powerful man than Henry's father Geoffrey, Count of Anjou(1113-51). Here Geoffrey (left) is dropped altogether!
Left one on the right...
Shouldn’t you be resting
I am. 🙂👍 Reading Moby Dick and David Hinton's translations and peeking in here. 😉
I’m eating a rare find of Camembert ( it’s all gooey Brie!) and working on my cholesterol ranking . I did find an audio of The Visitors to ease into Simak 🙏🏼
It's a book where one can see he was a journalist for fourty years. And how much the profession has changed since his days. Today it would be people with mobile phones breaking the story.
And one thing leads to another , ya know .
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