Henry PLANTAGENET, II

Male 1133 - 1189  (56 years)

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  • Name Henry PLANTAGENET 
    Suffix II 
    Birth Mar 1132/33  Le Mans, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 7 Jul 1189  Chinon, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Foutevraud, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19855  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Earl Geoffrey PLANTAGENET of Anjou   d. 1151 
    Mother Matilda BEAUCLERC,   b. Abt 1102 
    Marriage 1128 
    • From Wikipedia:
      "Geoffrey and Matilda's marriage took place in 1128. The marriage was meant to seal a lasting peace between England, Normandy (an English possession since William I) and Anjou. She was eleven years older than Geoffrey, and very proud of her status as dowager Empress (as opposed to being a mere countess), and which she kept for the remainder of her life. Their marriage was a stormy but happy one with frequent long separations; she bore him three sons and survived him by over 15 years."
    Family ID F07541  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eleanor of AQUITAINE,   b. 1122, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1204, Fontevraud Abbey, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 18 May 1152  [1, 2] 
    Children 
     1. William Plantagenet IX,   b. 17 Aug 1153
     2. Henry Plantagenet,   b. 28 Feb 1154/55
     3. Matilda Plantagenet, Duchess of Saxony,   b. Jun 1156
     4. Richard Plantagenet, the Lionheart,   b. 8 Sep 1157
     5. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany,   b. 23 Sep 1158
     6. Eleanor Plantagenet, Queen of Castile,   b. 13 Oct 1162
     7. Joan Plantagenet,   b. Oct 1165
     8. John PLANTAGENET,   b. 24 Dec 1167, Oxford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1216, Newark, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Family ID F07537  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Henry was crowned king in Dec 1154 at Westminster. He was 21.

      He was King of England, and also ruled the whole western coastal region of France.

      He is the king who did penance at the tomb of Thomas a Becket, accepting responsibility for his murder at Centerbury Cathedral.

      Although Henry was a powerful king, the latter years of his reign were plagued by numerous revolts of his sons, egged on by their mother, Eleanor.

      Eleanor and Henry were third cousins through their common ancestor Ermengarde of Anjou (wife to Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of G

  • Sources 
    1. [S013457] Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 34.

    2. [S013738] Wikipedia.