Henry II controlled vast lands across Western Europe by 1154 through conquest and marriage, including England, Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and Aquitaine, making him more powerful than the French king Louis VII. However, in the French lands Henry held, he was still a vassal of the French king. While Henry's territories were contiguous and much larger than those of Louis, in France he was technically subordinate to Louis as his overlord.