Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou V

1113 - 1151  (38 years)

• Name	Geoffrey Plantagenet
  Suffix	Count of Anjou V
  Birth	24 Aug 1113	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Sep 1151	Château-du-Loir, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France   [1]
  Burial	St Julian's Church, Le Mans, Anjou, France
  Person ID	I11044	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Fulk V "The Younger" d'Anjou, Count of Anjou King of Jerusalem,   b. 19 Feb 1089, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 10 Nov 1143, Acre, Hatzafon (Northern District), Israel (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	of Maine Ermengarde de la Fletche,   b. Abt 1096, Maine, France d. 15 January or 12 October 1126, Maine, France (Age 30 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Jul 1110	France   [2]
  Family ID	F3240	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	of Angers Adelaide,   b. 1112
  Marriage	Abt 1128
  	Mistress
  Children	1. 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne,   b. 1129, Normandy, France d. 7 May 1202, Lewes, Sussex, England (Age 73 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Princess of England Matilda Normandy,   b. 5 Aug 1102, London, Middlesex, England d. 10 Sep 1167 (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	22 May 1127	Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou, France   [3]
  Children	1. King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet,   b. 25 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Normandy, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Castle Chinon, Saumer, Indre Et Loire, France (Age 56 years)  [natural]   2. Count of Nantes Geoffrey VI Plantagenet,   b. 1 Jun 1134   d. 26 Jul 1158, Nantes, Brittany (Age 24 years)  [natural]   3. Count of Poitou William Plantagenet,   b. 1136   d. 30 Jan 1163/64, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 28 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 24 Aug 1113 - Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Burke says the marriage was 3 Apr 1127. The name Plantagenet, according to Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was scourged before the Holy Sepulcher with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in his helm. Duke of Normandy 1144-1150. 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 Isle-de-France) to Louis. [Encyclopedia Britannica CD '97]

  
  

• Sources

  [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 1-24. [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 118-24. 1110 [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 161.