Count Geoffrey ("the Fair", "le bon") Plantagenet IV or V of Anjou 
Geoffrey, known as "the Fair", "le bon", was born on August 24th, 1113 in Anjou, France. "the Fair", "le bon"'s father was King Fulk ("the Younger", "le Jeune") d'Anjou V of Jerusalem and his mother was Ermengard of Maine. His paternal grandparents were King Fulk ("Rechin") d'Anjou IV of Jerusalem and Bertrade de Montfort; his maternal grandparents were Helias of Maine and Agnes of Aquitaine. He had a brother and a sister, named Helie and Sybil. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 38 on September 7th, 1151 in Chateau, France. He was buried in September 1151 in Cathedral, Le Mans, France.General Notes
Count of Anjou & Maine, Duke of Normandy
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 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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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0950 in Gatinais, France d.> 0990
- b.~ 0970 in Gastinois, France d.1000
- b.~ 1000 in Chateau Landon, Seine-et-Marne, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou, France
- b.0948 in Macon, Seine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 0974 in Macon, France
- b.~ 0963 in Rheim, Marne, France d.<05 Mar 1005
- b.1043 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1106 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 0950 in Anjou, France d.21 Jul 0987 in Anjou, France
- b.21 Jun 0967 in Anjou, France d.21 Jun 1040 in Anjou, France
- b.0940/0950 d.0974
- b.1018 in Semurenbrionnais, Anjou, France d.18 Mar 1076 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.ABT 0937/0949 in Aquitaine, France d.03 Feb 0995 in France
- b.~ 0964 in Anjou, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Jerusalem, Palastein
- b.ABT 0950/0954 in Blois, France d.>27 Dec 1003
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Israel
- b.ABT 0960/0966 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.1003
- b.~ 1000 in Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.>04 Feb 1031
- b.0970/0975 in Evreux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1025 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.1087
- b.0975 in Gometz, Normandy, France d. in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1001 in Gometz, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.1051
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, , France
- b.~ 0965 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.16 Mar 1037
- b.~ 0986 in Rouen, Normandie d.1067 in Normandie
- b.~ 0968 in Normandie, France d.~ 1050
- b.~ 1030 in Evreux, Normandie
- b.< 0970 in Tosni, Eure, France d.1045 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1004 in Normandie
- b.~ 0970 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, France
- b.ABT 0970/0975 in Beaugency, Loiret, France d.> 1000
- b.~ 1000 in Beaugency, Loiret, France d.1060
- b.1045 in Fleche, Sarthe, France d.1096
- b.980/984/1002 d.13 Apr 1036
- b.~ 1000 in Fleche, Sarthe, France
- b.~ 1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110
- b.ABT 0960/0972 d.~ 1015
- b.980/984/1002 d.13 Apr 1036
- b.~ 1032
- b.~ 1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.ABT 0937/0949 in Aquitaine, France d.03 Feb 0995 in France
- b.~ 0969 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine d.31 Jan 1030 in Abbey of St. Cyprian, France
- b.ABT 0950/0954 in Blois, France d.>27 Dec 1003
- b.~ 1026 in Aquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Chãateau De Chizay, Poitou, Aquitaine
- b.~ 0958 in Lombardy, Italy d.21 Sep 1026/1027
- b.~ 0987 in Bourgogne d.10 Nov 1068
- b.~ 0963 in Rheim, Marne, France d.<05 Mar 1005
- d.1097
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.1011 in France d.21 Mar 1076 in Fleury-Sur-Ouche, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, France
- b.1049/1050 in Bourgogne d.> 1104
- b.21 Jun 0967 in Anjou, France d.21 Jun 1040 in Anjou, France
- b.1018 in Semurenbrionnais, Anjou, France d.18 Mar 1076 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.~ 0964 in Anjou, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Jerusalem, Palastein
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"the Fair", "le bon" and Lady of the English were married in a religious ceremony on May 22nd, 1128 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. They had two sons named Hameline Plantagenet and "Plantagenet".
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Children
Hameline Plantagenet de Warenne of Anjou
Hameline Plantagenet was born in 1130 in Normandy, France. He died at the age of 72 on May 7th, 1202 in England. He was buried in Chapter House, Lewes, Sussex, England.
King Henry Curtmantle FitzEmpress ("Plantagenet") Plantagenet II of England
Henry Curtmantle FitzEmpress, known as "Plantagenet", was born on March 5th, 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. He died at the age of 56 on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon Castle, Anjou, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was buried on July 8th, 1189 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France.
They had a daughter named Emme.
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