Angevin pound

The Angevin pound was "the ordinary standard of the currency in the continental possessions (12th-century ) of the early Plantagenets"[1] Roger of Hoveden wrote that its value was set at about one-fourth of an English pound by an ordinance of Richard the First.[2]

Notes
  1. Robertson, Eben William. (1872). Historical essays in connexion with the land, the Church etc. P. 44.
  2. Lyttelton, Baron George. (1769). The history of the life of King Henry the Second: and of the age in which he lived. Volume 1, p. 404.


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