The House of Anjou is usually divided into four sub-sections, the first being the Angevin dynasty from Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou to John of England, and, to mark the collapse of the Angevin empire under John, is then referred to as the Plantagenet dynasty from Henry III of England to Richard II of England. The male line descendants then split into two warring factions (see Wars of the Roses), the descendants of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster being known as the House of Lancaster and the descendants of his brother Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York being known as the House of York. Female-line descendants succeeded them as the Tudor dynasty. Not to be confused with the senior and junior Houses of Capet-Anjou which ruled parts of France, Hungary, Italy and Poland (see Angevin).

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