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Anyone know why the Bordeaux Customs Accounts are in the UK National Archives?
by simonbyrne 9y ago
Anyone know why the Bordeaux Customs Accounts are in the UK National Archives?
- linschn 9y agoMaybe because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitaine#English_Aquitaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitaine#English_Aquitaine ? > Aquitaine passed to France in 1137 when the duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, but their marriage was annulled in 1152. When Eleanor's new husband became King Henry II of England in 1154, the area became an English possession, and the cornerstone of the so-called Angevin Empire. Aquitaine remained English until the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453, when it was annexed by France.