(1) He was especially interested in the idea of u2018faction and disputeu2019 in the religious forum, writing on characters such as John Wesley and the Plantagenet family, and harboured a special interest in the reformation.(2) Both these peers - the first of royal Plantagenet lineage, the second very much a new man, a Russell of the second generation - were decided Protestants, in favour of the new deal.(3) A moated palace was built at Eltham which became a favourite home of Plantagenet monarchs during the 14th and 15th centuries.(4) He pressed his father's friend the Lord Chancellor and, later, the Prince Regent for a barony, in respect of a spurious Plantagenet descent.(5) The couple are known as Lord and Lady Morgan Glendwr within the Plantagenet re-enactment group.(6) It should not be concluded from this that Norman and Plantagenet kings were reluctant to see the orbit of their influence enlarged.(7) He was married to a Plantagenet princess, Matilda, the daughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.(8) With all the stubbornness of the Plantagenets , Richard refused to yield.(9) The first half of the play did not unravel or rise above the complexities of the plotting and infighting of the Plantagenets .(10) With fantastically perfumed, striped red and white flowers, she is named for Fair Rosamund, mistress of a Plantagenet king.(11) It was being built as a great economy from the rubble that it had been, under the previous Plantagenet rule.(12) Once England had been one of the provinces in the Angevin orbit; now it became the indisputable centre of the Plantagenet dominions.(13) He is an admirable exception to this omission, looking at women and power in his stimulating chapter on the Plantagenet kings.(14) The House of Lords is now an appointed chamber, as it was under the Plantagenets .(15) There was a history of friendship between the Plantagenets and Dermot, which meant that Dermot was so confident of Henry's goodwill that he travelled all the way to Aquitaine to see him.(16) It seems likely that the Plantagenets brought the sweet to England.