State · 1154 – 1242

Angevin Empire

A state of 1154 – 1242 — 88 years in Europe. It was replaced by Kingdom of France. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 people, 2 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 88 years; 1154 – 1242
Rulers: 4; the king
Most ground: 424,700 km²; in 1202
Within it: 1; recorded row
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: Angevin Empire in 1202, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Angevin Empire in 1202, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 424,700 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Angevin Empire in 1152, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Angevin Empire in 1202, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Kingdom of France · replaced by · 987 – 1791

Rulers

The line of king.

ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Eleanor of Aquitaine	1154 – 1204	50 years	ending not on record
John, King of England	1199 – 1214	15 years	ending not on record	child

4 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1154 – 1214. Median reign 32.5 years. 1 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

205,200 km² in 1154, 424,700 km² in 1204; at its largest 424,700 km² in 1204. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedEngland COA · CC BY-SA 2.5
coat of arms, undatedBlason maison Plantagenêt · CC BY-SA 4.0
flag, undatedRoyal Banner of England · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1100 – 11991 row · 1 wars and battles

Revolt of 1173–1174 · war · 1173 – 1174

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood88 years
stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held424,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 72% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median50 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 95% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1144 – 1252, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1202, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q538677 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.