II Henry 
II was born on March 5th, 1133 in Le Mans,Sarthe,France.1 II's father was Geoffrey V "Plantagenet" Count Of Anjou and his mother was Matilda. His paternal grandparents were King V Fulk and Erembourg Helais; his maternal grandparents were I Henry and Matilda Of Scotland. He was an only child. He died at the age of 56 on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon,Indre-et-Loire,France.1 General Notes
Henry II ruled over an empire which stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. One of the strongest, most energetic and imaginative rulers, Henry was the inheritor of three dynasties who had acquired Aquitaine by marriage; his charters listed them: 'King of the English, Duke of the Normans and Aquitanians and Count of the Angevins'. The King spent only 13 years of his reign in England; the other 21 years were spent on the continent in his territories in what is now France. Henry's rapid movements in carrying out his dynastic responsibilities astonished the French king, who noted 'now in England, now in Normandy, he must fly rather than travel by horse or ship'.
By 1158, Henry had restored to the Crown some of the lands and royal power lost by Stephen; Malcom IV of Scotland was compelled to return the northern counties. Locally chosen sheriffs were changed into royally appointed agents charged with enforcing the law and collecting taxes in the counties. Personally interested in government and law, Henry made use of juries and re-introduced the sending of justices (judges) on regular tours of the country to try cases for the Crown. His legal reforms have led him to be seen as the founder of English Common Law.
Henry's disagreements with the Archbishop of Canterbury (the king's former chief adviser), Thomas à Becket, over Church-State relations ended in Becket's murder in 1170 and a papal interdict on England. Family disputes over territorial ambitions almost wrecked the king's achievements. Henry died in France in 1189, at war with his son Richard, who had joined forces with King Philip of France to attack Normandy.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- d.1046 in Count of the Gatinais
- b.1043 in "Rechin" d.24 Apr 1109 in Count of Anjou
- b.SeeNotes in Count of Anjou (W121-200 d.21 JUL 987
- d.MAR 1075/1076
- b.SeeNotes in (w121-20)(118-20)
- b.1092 in KING OF JERUSALEM d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.24 Aug 1113 d.07 Sep 1151
- d.1126
- b.05 Mar 1133 in Le Mans,Sarthe,France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon,Indre-et-Loire,France
- b.SeeNotes in Duke of Normandy(W121-23)(121E-21)(PF 6-2) d.28 Aug 1026
- b.1027 in Duke of Normandy (W121-23)(PF7-3)(aka the Devil; the Magnifi d.22 Jul 1035 in Accused of poisoning his brother Richard III
- b.0982 d.1017
- b.1028 in Falaise d.09 Sep 1087 in Rouen
- b.SeeNotes in (W121-230) (PF7-3) the Lioness
- b.1070 in KING OF ENGLAND (1100-1135)(W124-25)(W121-25) d.01 Dec 1135 in (W33A-23)(W98-25) St. Denis-Le Fermont (Reading Abbey
- d.1036
- b.SeeNotes in Count of Flanders
- b.1032 in (w121-25)(W162-23)(W169-24) d.03 Nov 1083
- b.27 MAR 972 in KING OF FRANCE (996-1031) (W53-21)(W141-21)(W108-21) d.1031 in Meulan
- b.0986 in (W53-21)W141-21) d.25 Jul 1032
- b.1103 in the Empress,QUEEN OF ENGLAND d.10 Sep 1167
- b.0975 in Atholl,Perthshire,Scotland
- b.1001 in KING OF SCOTS (1034-1040) d.1040 in Iona,near Elgen,Scotland
- b.0984
- b.1031 in KING OF SCOTS (1058-1093) (W1-22) d.13 Nov 1093
- b.1079 in (W121-25)(W1-23)(W98-25) d.1118
- b.0989 in KING OF ENGLAND (1016) (W1-20) d.30 Nov 1016
- b.1016 in (W1-21)
- b. in (W1-20)
- b.1045 in St. Margeret of Scotland,canonized 1250 (W1-22) d.16 Nov 1093
- b.SeeNotes in (W1-21)
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Children
John Lackland
John was born on December 24th, 1167 in Kings Manorhouse,Oxford,Co.,Oxfordshire.1 He died at the age of 48 on October 19th, 1216 in Newark Castle,Newark,Nottinghamshire.1
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