Geoffrey V Plantagnet

• General Notes
  • he son of Fulk of Jerusalem, Geoffrey was nicknamed Plantagenet due to his habit of wearing a sprig of broom in his helmet. Contemporaries describe him as handsome and red haired. At the age of fifteen, he embarked upon his stormy marriage to Matilda, the daughter and eventual heiress of Henry I of England, thereby obtaining a claim to England and Normandy. When the throne of England was seized by Matilda's cousin, Stephen, Geoffrey secured Normandy. He died of a fever in 1151 at Château-du-Loir.
    Plantagenet, Geoffrey V the Fair, Count of Anjou and Maine
    
    Born: 24 AUG 1113
    Acceded: 1129
    Died: 7 SEP 1151, Château-du-Loir, France
    Interred: St. Julian's Church, Le Mans, Anjou
    Notes:
    
    Burke says the marriage was 3 Apr 1127. The name Plantagenet, according to
    Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked
    action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was
    scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say
    it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in
    his helm.
    Duke of Normandy 1144-1150.
    
    Father: , Fulk V the younger of Anjou, Count of Anjou
    
    Mother: Maine, Ermengard of
    Child 1: Plantagenet, Emma
    Child 2: , Mary of Shaftesbury, Abbess of Shaftesbury
    
    Married 22 MAY 1128, Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou to , Matilda the Empress, Queen of England
    
    Child 3: FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England, b. 25 MAR 1133
    Child 4: , Geoffrey VI of Anjou, Count of Nantes & Anjou, b. 1 JUN 1134
    Child 5: , William, Count of Poitou, b. 1136
    
    Associated with , Adelaide of Angers
    
    Child 6: de Warenne, Hamelin of Anjou Plantagenet, Earl of Surrey 5, b. ABT 1129