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In the 12th century, the most powerful vassals of the King of France were the English rulers. Henry II Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine who got married in 1152. Henry, Geoffrey V of Anjou Plantagenet's son, inherited the counties of Maine and Anjou and held the kingdom of England and the duchy of Normandy from his mother, Empress Matilda, William the Conqueror's granddaughter.