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Plantagenet line

noun

The family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485. Synonym: Plantagenet.

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... was led up to the church of the Grey Friars at Leicester; across whose back was tied, like some worthless sack, a naked body brought there for burial. It was the body of the last of the Plantagenet line, King Richard the Third, usurper and murderer, slain at the battle of Bosworth Field in the thirty-second year of his age, after a reign of ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

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