[74] See the famous "Truce of God" issued by the Archbishop of Cologne in 1083, in [Readings], Chapter IX.
[75] See genealogical table, above, p. [96].
[76] Reference, Emerton, Mediæval Europe, pp. 405–420. Readings, Chapter X.
[77] Not to be confounded with the duchy of Burgundy just referred to. See p. [97], above.
[78] See genealogical table and map of the Plantagenet possessions, pp. [140–141], below.
[79] Henry's family owes its name, Plantagenet, to the habit that his father, Geoffrey of Anjou, had of wearing a bit of broom (planta genista) in his helmet on his crusading expeditions.
[80] Geoffrey, the eldest of the three sons of Henry II mentioned above, died before his father.
[81] The Estates General were so called to distinguish a general meeting of the representatives of the three estates of the realm from a merely local assembly of the provincial estates of Champagne, Provence, Brittany, Languedoc, etc. There are some vague indications that Philip had called in a few townspeople even earlier than 1302.
[82] For the French monarchy as organized in the thirteenth century, see Emerton, Mediæval Europe, pp. 432–433; Adams, Civilization, pp. 311–328.
[83] In spite of the final supremacy of the West Saxons of Wessex, the whole land took its name from the more numerous Angles.