Henry II Plantagenet 
Henry II was born on March 25th, 1133 in Le Mans,FRANCE.1 Henry II's father was Geoffrey V Plantagenet and his mother was Princess Of England Mathilda. His paternal grandparents were V, Count Of Anjou Foulques and Countess Of Maine Ermengarde; his maternal grandparents were Henry I Beauclerc and Matilda Edith , Princess Of Scotland Canmore. He had a brother named Geoffrey Of. He had a half-brother named Hamelyn. He died at the age of 56 on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon,Indre-Et-Loire,FRANCE. He was buried in Fontevraud Abbey,France.1 General Notes
Name Prefix:<NPFX> King Of England
Henry II. Plantaganet, first Plantaganet King of England (1154-1189), known as Curt Mantel, was born at Le Mans,
France, on March 15, 1133. At eighteen in 1151 he was invested with the Duchy of Normandy, his mother's heritage, and
within a year became also, by his father's death, Count of Anjou; while in 1152 he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, the
daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine (see his ancestral lineage elsewhere in Vol. I.), and divorced wife of King Louis VII.
of France, added Poitou and Guienne to his dominions. In January 1153 he landed in England, and in November a treaty
was agreed to whereby Henry was declared successor to King Stephen; he was crowned in 1154 and ruled until his death in
1189. He confirmed the laws of his grandfather, King Henry I, reestablished the exchequer, banished the foreign
mercenaries, demolished the hundreds of castles erected in Stephen's reign, and recovered the royal estates. The whole of
1156 he spent in France, reducing his brother, Geoffrey of Nantes, who died in 1158, and having secured his territories, he
spent the next five years warring and organizing his possessions on the Continent. Henry's objective was that of all Norman
kings, to build up the royal power at the expense of the barons and the church. From the barons his reforms met with little
serious opposition; with the clergy he was less successful. To aid him in reducing the church to subjection, he appointed his
chancellor, Thomas a Becket to the see of Canterbury. Henry compelled him and the other prelates to agree to the
'Constitution of Clarendon', but Bechet proved a sturdy churchman, and the struggle between him and the monarch
terminated only by his murder. In 1174 Henry did penance at Bechet's tomb, but he ended by bringing the church to
subordination in civil matters. Meanwhile he organized an expedition to Ireland. The English Pope, Adrian IV, had in 1155
given Henry authority over the entire island of Ireland; and a number of Norman-Welsh knights had gained a footing in the
country, among them Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, styled Strongbow, who in 1155 married the heiress of Leinster
and assumed rule as the Earl of Leinster. Henry was jealous at the rise of a powerful feudal baronage in Ireland, and during
his stay there (1171-1172) he broke the power of Richard Strongbow and the other nobles.
Henry was king from 1154 to 1189. He was best known to contemporaries as Henry Fitz-Empress because of his mothers title.
In 1150 he became Duke of Normandy and 1151 Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine.
FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England
Born: 25 MAR 1133, Le Mans, Anjou
Acceded: 19 DEC 1154, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Died: 6 JUL 1189, Chinon Castle, France
Notes:
Reigned 1154-1189. He ruled an empire that stretched from the Tweed to the Pyrenees. In spite of frequent hostitilties with the French King his own family and rebellious Barons (culminating in the great revolt of 1173-74) and his quarrel with Thomas Becket, Henry maintained control over his possessions until shortly before his death. His judicial and administrative reforms which increased Royal control and influence at the expense of the Barons were of great constitutional importance. Introduced trial by Jury. Duke of Normandy
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0970 in Gastinois,FRANCE d.1000
- b.1000 in Chateau Landon,Seine-et-Marne,FRANCE d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou,FRANCE
- b.1043 in Anjou,FRANCE d.14 Apr 1109
- b.0970 in Semur,Cote d'Or,FRANCE d.1032
- b.1015 in Anjou,FRANCE d.21 Mar 1075/1076 in Fleury-sur-Ouche,FRANCE
- b.0980 in Vergy,FRANCE
- b.1092 in Anjou,FRANCE d.10 Nov 1143 in JERSUSALEM buried: St Sepulcre,JERUSALEM
- b.0993 in Evreux,Normandy,FRANCE d.Aft 4 Feb 1030/1031
- b.1025 in Montfort,FRANCE d.1097
- b.0996 in France d.1051 in France
- b.1059 in Montfort,FRANCE d.14 Feb 1116/1117 in Fontevraud Abbey,FRANCE
- b.0986 in Rouen,FRANCE d.13 Dec 1067 in Normandy,FRANCE
- b.1030 in Normandie,FRANCE d.Wft Est. 1092-1126
- b.1004 in Normandy,FRANCE d.Wft Est. 1033-1098
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou,FRANCE d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau Eure-Et-Loire,FRANCE bur: Cathedral le Mans,FRANCE
- b.~ 1000 in Fleche,Sarthe,FRANCE
- b.1042 in Fleche,Sarthe,FRANCE
- b.~ 1000 in Fleche,Sarthe,FRANCE
- b.1060 in Maine,FRANCE d.1110
- b.1044
- b.1096 in Maine,FRANCE d.1126 in Maine,FRANCE
- b.~ 1000 in Chateau,Eure-et-Loire,FRANCE
- b.~ 1030 in Chateau,Eure-et-Loire,FRANCE
- b.1055 in Chateau,Eure-et-Loire,FRANCE d.1099
- b.1030 in FRANCE
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans,FRANCE d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon,Indre-Et-Loire,FRANCE
- b.0958 in Normandie,FRANCE d.23 Aug 1027 in Fecamp,FRANCE
- b.0999 in Normandie,FRANCE d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicea,Bithynia,TURKEY
- b.0982 in Rennes,Bretagne,FRANCE d.> 1026 in Normandie,FRANCE
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise,Normandy,FRANCE d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrube,nr. Rouen; bur: St. Stephen Abbey,Caen,Normandy, FRANCE
- b.0978 in Falaise,Calvados,Normandy,FRANCE
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise,Calvados,FRANCE d.Wft Est. 1042-1098
- b.~ 0980 in Falaise,Calvados,Normandy,FRANCE
- b.1068 in Selby,Yorkshire,ENGLAND d.01 Dec 1135 in St Denis-le-Fermont,Near Gisors,FRANCE Bur: Reading Abbey,Berkshire, ENGLAND
- b.0980 in Flanders,FRANCE d.30 May 1036
- b.1000 in Flanders,FRANCE d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille,Nord,FRANCE
- b.~ 0995 in LUXEMBURG d.21 Feb 1029/1030
- b.1031 in Flanders,BELGIUM d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen,Calvados,France buried at Holy trinity Church in Caen
- b.27 Mar 972 in Orleans,Loiret,FRANCE d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun,FRANCE bur. St Denis Abbey,Seine,FRANCE
- b.~ 1003 d.8 Jan 1078/1079 in Messines,Monastre,FRANCE
- b.0986 in Arles,Toulouse,France d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun,France
- b.7 Feb 1101/1102 in Winchester,ENGLAND d.10 Sep 1167 in Abbey of Notre Dame; buried Rouen Cathedral,FRANCE
- b.0975 in SCOTLAND d.1045 in murdered by Vikings
- b.1001 in Athol,Perthshire,SCOTLAND d.14 Aug 1040 in Iona,Bothnagowan,Elgin,Moray, SCOTLAND
- b.0984 in Angus,SCOTLAND d.1045
- b.1033 in Athol,Perthshire,SCOTLAND d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick,Northumbria,ENGLAND
- b.0990 in Bernicia,Northumbria,ENGLAND/DENMARK d.1055 in York,Yorkshire,ENGLAND buried: Galmanho Abbey By,York, Yorkshire
- b.1014 in Northumbria,ENGLAND d.1070 in ENGLAND
- b.~ 1016 in Bernicia,Northumberland,ENGLAND d.Deceased
- b.1079 in Dunfermline,Fife,SCOTLAND d.01 May 1118 in buried: St Peter's Ch,Westminster Abbe,London,England
- b.0989 in ENGLAND d.30 Nov 1016 in murdered in Oxford,ENGLAND buried at Glastonbury
- b.1016 in Wessex,ENGLAND d.1057 in London,Middlesex,ENGLAND
- b.0995 in Northumberland,ENGLAND
- b.1045 in Wessex,England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle,Edinburgh,Mid-Lothian,Scotland
- b.~ 0970 in HUNGARY d.05 Aug 1038
- d.Deceased
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Henry II and Eleanor Of were married in a religious ceremony on May 11th, 1152 in Bordeaux,Gironde,FRANCE.1 They had six sons and three daughters, named William, I, King Of England, Geoffrey, JOHN LACKLAND, Henry, Philip, Matilda, Eleanor and Joanna.
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Children
I, King Of England Richard
I, King Of England was born in 1157.1 He died at the age of 42 on April 6th, 1199.1
Geoffrey Plantagenet
Geoffrey was born in 1158.1 He died at the age of 28 in 1186 in killed in a tournament.1
Eleanor Plantagenet
Eleanor was born on October 13th, 1162 in Domfront,Orne,FRANCE.1 She died at the age of 52 on October 25th, 1214 in Las Huelgas,Burgos,SPAIN.1
JOHN LACKLAND PLANTEGENET
JOHN LACKLAND was born on December 24th, 1166 in Beaumont Place,Qxford,England.1 He died at the age of 49 on October 19th, 1216 in Newark Castle,Lincolnshire,England.1
They had a daughter named UNKNOWN.
They had a son named William , Earl Of Salisbury.
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Children
William , Earl Of Salisbury De Longspee
William , Earl Of Salisbury was born in 1173 in ENGLAND. He died in ENGLAND; Bur: Salisbury,ENGLAND.
1 Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1142, Date of Import: Apr 27, 1996
Further sources/citations:
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Further sources/citations:
GEDCOM File : 46438.ged, GEDCOM File : rowland2.ged