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Geoffroy V d'Anjou, dit le Bel ou Plantagenêt ( 24 août 1113 2 – 7 septembre 1151, Château-du-Loir ), fut comte d'Anjou, du Maine et de Touraine ( 1129 - 1151 ), et, plus tard, duc de Normandie ( 1144 - 1151 ). Il est surnommé Plantagenêt à cause du brin de genêt qu'il avait l'habitude de porter à son chapeau.
The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England. Geoffrey V "le Bel" or "Plantagenet". Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine, 1129-1151. Duke of Normandy, 1144-1151. When Fulk V set off for Jerusalem in 1129, he left his counties of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine to his son Geoffrey V [ Chr. S. Serg. Andegav., s.a. 1129].
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Jul 29, 2018 · Geoffrey was born 24 August 1113, the eldest son of Foulques V d’Anjou and Eremburga de La Flèche and was known as, “the Handsome.”. Geoffrey was named after his great-grandfather Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais. King Henry I of England had two children, a son named William and a daughter Matilda.
May 29, 2018 · Geoffrey ‘Plantagenet’. Geoffrey ‘Plantagenet’ (1113–51), count of Anjou (1129–51) and duke of Normandy (1144–51), became the husband of Henry I 's designated heiress, the Empress Matilda, on 17 June 1128, in a political marriage which was intended to neutralize Anjou's participation in the wars which troubled Henry's rule in ...
Nov 27, 2018 · The House of Plantagenet was founded by Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou via his marriage to Empress Matilda. The English crown passed to their son, the future King Henry II of England, under the Treaty of Winchester, bringing an end to nineteen years of a civil war called The Anarchy fought between Matilda and her cousin King Stephen over the possession of the English crown.
Brief Life History of Geoffrey V. When Geoffrey V Plantagenet Count of Anjou was born on 24 August 1113, in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France, his father, Foulques V d'Anjou Roi de Jérusalem, was 24 and his mother, Erembourg du Maine de la Fleche, was 23. He married Matilda of England Holy Roman Empress on 5 June 1127, in Le Mans, Sarthe ...
Count Geoffrey V of Anjou (1129-51) features in Anglo-French historiography as a. peripheral figure in the Anglo-Norman succession crisis which followed the death of his. father-in-law, Henry I of England and Normandy (1100-35). The few studies which.
