History A-Level
Frontier security and vassalage
What Frontier security and vassalage means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Frontier security and vassalage
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Secured by submissions such as that of the Irish kings and bishops at Dublin and Cashel in 1171–72, which extended Angevin authority without constant war.
Topics that use Frontier security and vassalage
- Paper 2, Option 2A.2: England and the Angevin Empire in the reign of Henry II, 1154–89 - 1 The restoration and extension of royal authority, 1154–72 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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