ABSTRACT
To what extent was there any sense of 'unity' left to the Angevin dominions after the French king's victories in Normandy in 1203, at Bouvines in 1214 and in Poitou ten years later? What kind of imperium, if any, did Henry III preside over in the period before the Treaty of Paris of 1259? Why were the king's dominions on the continent so much better organised, and with so much more potential in 1259, than they had been half a century earlier?
