Geoffrey V Plantagenet 
Geoffrey V was born on August 24th, 1113 in Anjou, France. Geoffrey V's father was Fulk Of Anjou and his mother was Heiress Of Maine Erembourge. His paternal grandparents were Fulk IV "Le Réchin and Bertrade De Montfort; his maternal grandparents were Count Of Maine Helias and Dame De Château-Du-Loire Mathilda. He was an only child. He died at the age of 38 on September 7th, 1151 in Le Mans, Maine, France.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Count Of Anjou
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Count Of Anj
Geoffrey IV, also called GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, byname GEOFFREY THE FAIR, French GEOFFROI PLANTAGENET, or GEOFFROI LE BEL (b. Aug. 24, 1113--d. Sept. 7, 1151, Le Mans, Maine [France]), count of Anjou (1131-51), Maine, and Touraine and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England through his marriage, in June 1128, to Matilda (q.v.), daughter of Henry I of England. On Henry's death (1135), Geoffrey claimed the duchy of Normandy; he finally conquered it in 1144 and ruled there as duke until he gave it to his son Henry (later King Henry II of England) in 1150.
Geoffrey was popular with the Normans, but he had to suppress a rebellion of malcontent Angevin nobles. After a short war with Louis VII of France, Geoffrey signed a treaty (August 1151) by which he surrendered the whole of Norman Vexin (the border area between Normandy and Île-de-France) to LouisGeoffrey IV, also called GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, byname GEOFFREY THE FAIR, French GEOFFROI PLANTAGENET, or GEOFFROI LE BEL (b. Aug. 24, 1113--d. Sept. 7, 1151, Le Mans, Maine [France]), count of Anjou (1131-51), Maine, and Touraine and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England through his marriage, in June 1128, to Matilda (q.v.), daughter of Henry I of England. On Henry's death (1135), Geoffrey claimed the duchy of Normandy; he finally conquered it in 1144 and ruled there as duke until he gave it to his son Henry (later King Henry II of England) in 1150.
Geoffrey was popular with the Normans, but he had to suppress a rebellion of malcontent Angevin nobles. After a short war with Louis VII of France, Geoffrey signed a treaty (August 1151) by which he surrendered the whole of Norman Vexin (the border area between Normandy and Île-de-France) to Louis. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
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- b.~ 0983
- d.01 Apr 1046 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Holy Land
- b.~ 0940
- b.~ 0983 in Burgundy, France
- b.0958 in Reims, Marne, France d.5 Mar 1003-1004
- b.1043 d.14 Apr 1109
- d.21 Jul 987 in France
- b.~ 0970 in Anjou, France d.21 Jun 1040 in Metz, Lorraine, France
- b.Bet 930 and 935 d.~ 0978
- b.~ 1018 in Anjou, France
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Holy Land
- b.0968 d.1031
- b.~ 0996 d.> 1051
- b.~ 1026 in Montfort, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1060 in Montfort Amauri, , France d.14 Feb 1115-1116
- b.~ 0961 in Normandy, France d.1037
- d.13 Dec 1067 in Rouen, France
- b.~ 0968 in Normandie
- b.~ 1030
- b.0972 d.25 Feb 1016-1017
- b.~ 1004
- d.1 Mar 1056-1057
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Le Mans, Maine, France
- b.~ 0977
- b.~ 1002 d.~ 1060
- b.~ 1032 d.1097
- b.~ 1062
- b.~ 1002 d.13 Apr 1036
- b.~ 1032
- b.~ 1092 d.1126
- b.~ 0972 in Le Mans, Maine France
- b.~ 1002
- b.~ 0972 d.27 Oct 1035
- b.~ 1032 d.> 1099
- b.~ 1062 d.1099
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They had a son named Henry II.
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Henry II Plantagenet
Henry II was born in Le Mans, Sarthe, Anjou, France. He died on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France. He was buried in Abbey Of Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France.
They had a son named Hameline.
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Hameline Plantagenet
Hameline was born about 1129. He died on May 7th, 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England.
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