Geoffrey V "le Bon" Plantagenet 
Geoffrey V "le Bon" was born on August 24th, 1113 in Anjou, France. Geoffrey V "le Bon"'s father was Fulk of Jerusalem and his mother was Ermengarde or Ermentrude du Maine. His paternal grandparents were Foulques "The Brawler" Rechin d'Anjou and Bertrada De Montfort-l'Amaury; his maternal grandparents were Helie I de la Fleche and Matilda of Chateau Du Loire. He had a brother and two sisters, named Elias, Mathilde and Sibylla. He had two half-brothers named Baldwin III of and Amalric I of. He died at the age of 38 on September 7th, 1151 in Chateau-du-Luoir, Eure-et-Loire, France.General Notes
King Henry I of England, in despair over the loss of his son, William, duke of Normandy, who was drowned in the sinking of a ship off the coast of France, sought the aid of Geoffrey Plantagent, one of the most powerful princes of France, a noble person, with "elegant and courtly manners and a reputation for gallantry in the field". Approving the marriage of his daughter Matilda with Geoffrey, King Henry personally invested him with Knighthood, and expressed the hope that all Englishmen would give them full allegiance. The Barons took the oath to uphold the succession of Matilda and Geoffrey and their children after them. Thus Geoffrey heads the line of English Kings which bear his Plantagenet name. The friends of Geoffrey were unaware that their playful nickname for him of Plantagenet would live through the years. The story is told that while disguised in battle and to make himself known to his followers, he leaned from his horse and grasped a sprig of "plante de genet", the common broom corn, and thrust it in his helmet. Thus he derived his popular title. As eldest son of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem, and his wife, Ermengarde, daughter of Helias, Count of Maine, Geoffrey was of the House of Angevin Kings, which had been prominent for three centuries. (www.womacknet.net/plantagenet.htm)
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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.~ 0940 d.> 0990
- b.0970 d.> 0990
- b.~ 1004 in Gatnois, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou, France
- d.BET 981 AND 982
- b.~ 0974 in Semur, Anjou, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 958 AND 959 d.5 MAR 1004/05
- b.~ 1043 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.BET 938 AND 940 in Anjou, France d.21 JUL 987 in Killed in action
- b.21 JUN 987 in Anjou, France d.BET 22 MAY AND 21 JUN 1040 in Metz, while returning from Jerusalem
- b.~ 0934 in Donzy, Troyes, France d.BET 982 AND 984 in Angers
- b.~ 1018 in Anjou, France d.18 MAR 1075/76 in assassinated in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Normandy, France
- b.BET 964 AND 984 in France d.01 Apr 1046 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.BET 1090 AND 1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Acre, Jerusalem, Israel
- b.0960 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.1003
- b.BET 993 AND 1000 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.AFT 4 FEB 1052/53
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1025 in Hainault, Montfort, France d.1087 in St Thomas, Eperon, Normandy, France
- b.BET 975 AND 988 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1001 AND 1010 in Ile-de-France, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1059 AND 1060 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1116/17 in Monastery at Fontevrault, Poitiers, France
- b.~ 0975 in Evreux, Normandy d.1037 in Nicea, Turkey
- b.0986 in Rouen, Normandy d.13 Dec 1067 in Evreux, Normandy
- b.~ 0968 in Normandie d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1038 AND 1048 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1012 d.UNKNOWN
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Luoir, Eure-et-Loire, France
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- d.1060
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- b.~ 1042 d.UNKNOWN
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1060 AND 1062 d.11 Jun 1110
- b.~ 0990 d.13 Apr 1036
- b.BET 1030 AND 1044 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1090 AND 1097 in Fleche, Sarthe, Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.BET 889 AND 902 in Poitiers, Vienne, Aquitaine d.BET 932 AND 935
- b.BET 915 AND 929 in Aquitaine, France d.0995 in St. Cyrien, Poitiers, France
- b.~ 0895 in Wessex, England or Berkampsted, Suffolk, England d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 937 AND 949 in Aquitaine, France d.3 APR 995 in St. Maixent, Poitou, France
- b.BET 885 AND 900 in Normandy, France d.17 DEC 942 in Normandy, France (murdered by Arnulf of Flanders)
- b.BET 917 AND 932 in Normandie, Neustria d.AFT 14 OCT 962
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, Indre-Et-Loire, Provence, France d.~ 0972
- d.1097
- b.~ 0885 in Blois, France d.< 0954
- b.BET 886 AND 908 in Chartres, France d.16 JAN 977/78 in Blois, France
- b.~ 0887 in Bourges, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 945 AND 951 in Paris, France d.1004
- b.0884 in Picardie, France d.23 FEB 942/43 in St. Quintin
- b.BET 914 AND 920 in Vermandois, France d.9 FEB 978/79
- b.BET 887 AND 897 in Bretagne, Normandy d.AFT MAR 930/31 in France
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‌Geoffrey V "le Bon" and Maud were married in a religious ceremony in Sarthe, France. They had three sons named Henry II "FitzEmpress", William and Count of.
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Children
Henry II "FitzEmpress" Plantagenet
Henry II "FitzEmpress" was born on March 25th, 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. He died at the age of 56 in 1189 in Chinon Castle, Indre-et-Loire, Anjou, France. He was buried in Abbey-et-Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.
They had a son named Hameline.
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Children
Hameline Plantagenet
Hameline was born in 1129 in Anjou, France. He died at the age of 73 on May 7th, 1202 in England.
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