Geoffrey IV Plantagenet , Comte d'Anjou 
Geoffrey IV was born on August 24th, 1113 in Anjou, France. Geoffrey IV's father was Foulques V Comte d' Anjou , King of Jerusalem and his mother was Ermengarde (Erembourg) du Maine. His paternal grandparents were Foulques IV "Le Rechin" Comte d' Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort; his maternal grandparents were Helias de la Fleche Count du Maine and Matilda (Maud) de Chateau du Loire. He had a sister named Sybil d'. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother named Aumary I de Anjou King of. He died at the age of 38 on September 7th, 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France.General Notes
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 Cle-de-France) to Louis. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
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The Plantagenet family name was originally just a nickname for Geoffrey. He many times wore a sprig with yellow flowers in his hat. The flower was named "genet" or "genistae" in the French of the times--thus his nickname was "Plant-a-Genet". Genet was supposedly a traditional flower of the Anjou family dating back to the time of Fulk, The Great, Count of Anjou 898-941 who was scourged (in order to atone for past sins) with broom twigs of the Genet while on pilgrimage in Jerusalem. Most people of the times had personal nicknames such as "Beauclerc", "Curtmantel", "Longshanks", and "Lackland", but Geoffrey's stuck and eventually (many generations later) became the family name. Geoffrey's immediate descendants were probably not known as the Plantagenet family at the time they lived, it was only later that the Plantagenet family name was applied to all descendants of Geoffrey.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0970 in Gatinais, Orleanais, France d.1000
- b.~ 1000 in Chateau Landon, Seine-et-Marne, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.0953 in Macon, Seine-et-Loire, France d.0978
- b.~ 0975 in Macon, Seine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 0953 in Rheims, Marne, France d.5 MAR 1004/05
- b.1043 in Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.21 Jun 0967 in Anjou, France d.21 Jun 1040 in Metz, Haute-Lorraine, France
- b.1018 in Anjou, France d.21 MAR 1075/76 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.~ 0984 in Anjou, France d.01 Apr 1040 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.~ 0993 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.AFT 4 FEB 1052/53 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1025 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.~ 1087
- b.~ 1001 in Ile de France, France
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1116/17 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 0986 in Rouen, Seine-Inferior, France d.13 Dec 1067 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1040 in Evreux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1010 in Normandy, France d.> 1077
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1020 in Beaugency, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France d.1055 in Fleche, Sarthe, France
- b.1042 in Beaugency, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France d.< 1097 in Fleche, Sarthe, France
- b.~ 1020 in Fleche, Sarthe, France
- b.~ 1075 in Fleche, Sarthe, France d.1110 in Maine, France
- b.1045 in Maine, France d.1097
- b.1060 in Fleche, Sarthe, France
- b.1045 in Apulia, Cala, Italy
- b.~ 1097 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1005 in Chateau du Loir, Sarthe, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.1030 in Chateau du Loir, Sarthe, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.~ 1010 in France
- b.~ 1075 in Chateau du Loir, Sarthe, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France d.1099
- b.1040 in France
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Geoffrey IV and Maud "The Empress" Princess of were married in a religious ceremony on April 3rd, 1127 in Lemanns, Sarthe, France. They had three sons and a daughter, named William, Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of, Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of and Emme d'.
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Children
William Plantagenet , Count of Poitou
William was born on July 22nd, 1136 in Argentan, Normandy, France. He died in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of England
Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of was born in Le Mans, Maine, France. He died on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of England
Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of was born in Le Mans, Maine, France. He died on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Geoffrey IV and Adelaide of were married in a religious ceremony about 1129 in No Marriage. They had a son named Hamelin.
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Children
Hamelin Plantagenet , 5th Earl of Surrey
Hamelin was born in 1130 in Normandy, France. He died at the age of 72 on May 7th, 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England. He was buried in Chapter House, Lewes, Sussex, England.
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