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ARTHUR I

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 682 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARTHUR I  . (118g–1 203), See also:duke of See also:Brittany, was the See also:posthumous son of See also:Geoffrey, the See also:fourth son of See also:Henry II. of See also:England, and See also:Constance, heiress of Conan IV., duke of Brittany . The Bretons hoped that their See also:young See also:prince would uphold their See also:independence, which was threatened by the See also:English . Henry II. tried to seize Brittany, and in 1187 forced Constance to marry one of his favourites, Randulph de Blundevill, See also:earl of See also:Chester (d . 1232) . Henry, however, died soon afterwards (1189) . The new See also:king of England, See also:Richard Cceur de See also:Lion, claimed the guardianship of the young See also:Arthur, but in 1190 Richard See also:left for the Crusade . Constance profited by his See also:absence by governing the duchy, and in 1194 she had Arthur proclaimed duke of Brittany by an See also:assembly of barons and bishops . Richard invaded Brittany in 1196, but was defeated in 1197 and became reconciled to See also:Con-stance . On his See also:death in 1189, the nobles of See also:Anjou, See also:Maine and See also:Touraine refused to recognize See also:John of England, and did See also:homage to Arthur, who declared himself the See also:vassal of See also:Philip See also:Augustus . In 1202 See also:war was resumed between the king of England and the king of See also:France . The king of France recognized Arthur's right to Brittany, Anjou, Maine and See also:Poitou .

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Normandy, Arthur tried to seize Poitou . But, surprised at Mirebeau, he See also:fell into the hands of John, who sent him prisoner to See also:Falaise . In the following See also:year he was transferred to See also:Rouen, and disappeared suddenly . It is thought that John killed him with his own See also:hand . After this See also:murder John was condemned by the See also:court of peers of France, and stripped of the fiefs which he possessed in France . See See also:Ralph of Coggeshall, " Chronicon Anglicanum," in the Monumenta Britanniae historica; Dom Lobineau, Histoire de Bretagne (1702); Dom Morice, Histoire de Bretagne (1742–1756); A. de la Borderie, Histoire de Bretagne, vol. iii . (1899); See also:Bemont, " De la condamnation de See also:Jean-sans-Terre See also:par la Cour See also:des Pairs de France," in the Revue historique (1886), vol. xxxii .

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