#but the aggressive competitive nature of power within the family as well as blurring inheritance patterns to favor ''desirable'' candidates

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1. James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

2. Eleanor Searle, Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power: 840-1066

3. David Bates, Normandy before 1066

4. Bernard Bachrach, Henry II and the Angevin tradition of family hostility

#something something the very centralized Norman style of power was replaced by the Angevin model #but the aggressive competitive nature of power within the family as well as blurring inheritance patterns to favor ''desirable'' candidates #stayed #twelfth century