Henry PLANTAGENET, II

1133 - 1189  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Henry PLANTAGENET
  Suffix	II
  Born	Mar 1132/33	Le Mans, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Jul 1189	Chinon, France   [1]
  Buried	Foutevraud, France
  Person ID	I19855	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey PLANTAGENET of Anjou,   d. 1151
  Mother	Matilda BEAUCLERC,   b. Abt 1102
  Married	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 ,   d. 1 Apr 1204, Fontevraud Abbey, France  (Age 82 years)
  Married	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 ,   d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark, England  (Age 48 years)
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F07537	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  [S013457] Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 34. [S013738] Wikipedia.