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St. Julian's Church
Geoffroi Plantagenet d'Anjou = Geoffry Plantagenet = Geoffrey l e Bel = Geoffrey the Fair, Comte d'Anjou, Duc de Normandie.
GEOFFROI (or GEOFFREY) PLANTAGENET D'ANJOU le Bel [the Fair], Co mte d'Anjou (1129), Duc de Normandie (1144), son of Foulques V d 'Anjou, Comte d'Anjou (descendant of Charlemagne), by Eremburge , Comtesse Heritiere du Maine, daughter and heiress of Helie d e Baugency, Comte du Maine (descendant of Charlemagne), was bor n on 24 Nov. 1113. He was married on 22 May 1127 to MAUD OF ENGL AND [the Empress Maud], childless widow of Heinrich V Deutsche r Konig, Romischer Kaiser (died 23 May 1125), and daughter of He nry I King of England (descendant of Charlemagne), by Maud (desc endant of Charlemagne), daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scots . She was born on 7 Feb. 1102. They had three children. On Henry 's death in 1135, he claimed the duchy of Normandie, conquerin g it in 1144. He held the duchy, with that of Anjou, until grant ing them to his son Henry. GEOFFROI D'ANJOU died at Le Mans, Mai ne, on 7 Sep. 1151. His widow died on 10 Sep. 1167. Paget (1977) , p. 14. Schwennicke (1984) 2:81.
Shepard gives three illegitimate children: Emma, Hameline, & Emm a (again).