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PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey VI Mantell
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1. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey VI Mantell was born on 3 Jun 1134 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (son of PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V and MATILDA, Empress); died on 27 Jul 1157 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
2. PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (son of ANJOU, King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine Foulques V le Jeune Count of and DU MAINE, Ermengarde); died on 7 Sep 1151 in Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The nickname "Plantagenet" sometimes used for Geoffrey only became a name for the entire dynasty in later years, and was not used by his immediate descendants, the first appearance of "Plantagenet" as a surname being in the fifteenth century.
- Relation to Me: 27 GGF
- Royalty & Nobility: Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine
- Name: Geoffrey V "The Handsome" Plantagenet Count of Plantagenet Anjou
- Name: Geoffrey V Plantagenet
- Name: Geoffroi V le Bon PLANTAGENET
- Death: 7 1151, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; Age: 38
- Death: 7 Sep 1151, Rancé, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France
Notes:
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151) — called the Handsome (French: le Bel) and Plantagenet — was the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynastyto which Geoffrey gave his nickname.
Geoffroy married MATILDA, Empress on 22 May 1127 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Empress (daughter of HENRY, King of England I and PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda) was born on 5 Aug 1102 in Middlesex, England; died on 10 Sep 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. MATILDA, Empress was born on 5 Aug 1102 in Middlesex, England (daughter of HENRY, King of England I and PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda); died on 10 Sep 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Books About: Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
- Differentiator: Claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.
- Relation to Me: 27 GGM
- Name: Matilda Maud Empress Of GERMANY
- Birth: 7 Feb 1102
- Royalty & Nobility: Between 7 Jan 1114 and 23 May 1125; Holy Roman Empress; German Queen; Queen of Italy
- Death: 10 Sep 1167
Notes:
The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband into Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned in St. Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry had no children, and when Henry died in 1125, the crown was claimed by Lothair II, one of his political enemies.
On Henry V's death, Matilda was recalled to Normandy by her father, who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou to form an alliance to protect his southern borders. Henry I had no further legitimate children and nominated Matilda as his heir, making his court swear an oath of loyalty to her and her successors, but the decision was not popular in the Anglo-Norman court. Henry died in 1135 but Matilda and Geoffrey faced opposition from the Norman barons and were unable to pursue their claims. The throne was instead taken by Matilda's cousin Stephen of Blois, who enjoyed the backing of the English Church.
In 1139 Matilda crossed to England to take the kingdom by force, supported by her half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, and her uncle, King David I of Scotland, while Geoffrey focused on conquering Normandy. Matilda's forces captured Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, but the Empress's attempt to be crowned at Westminster collapsed in the face of bitter opposition from the London crowds. As a result of this retreat, Matilda was never formally declared Queen of England, and was instead titled the Lady of the English.
The war degenerated into a stalemate, with Matilda controlling much of the south-west of England, and Stephen the south-east and the Midlands. Large parts of the rest of the country were in the hands of local, independent barons. Matilda returned to Normandy, now in the hands of her husband, in 1148, leaving her eldest son to continue the campaign in England; he eventually succeeded to the throne as Henry II in 1154.Children:
- HENRY, II was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France.
- PLANTAGENET, Guillaume was born on 22 Jul 1136 in Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 30 Jan 1163 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
- 1. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey VI Mantell was born on 3 Jun 1134 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 27 Jul 1157 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
Generation: 3
4. ANJOU, King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine Foulques V le Jeune Count of was born in 1092 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (son of ANJOU, Fulk IV of and MONTFORT, Bertrade of); died on 10 Nov 1143 in `Akko, Hazafon, Israel.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Relation to Me: 28 GGF
- Royalty & Nobility: King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine
- Name: Fulk V
Foulques + DU MAINE, Ermengarde. Ermengarde (daughter of MAINE, Elias Helie of and DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess) was born on 3 Jul 1094 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. DU MAINE, Ermengarde was born on 3 Jul 1094 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (daughter of MAINE, Elias Helie of and DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess); died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: Heiress of Maine through her father Helias de la Flèche and of Château-du-Loir through her mother Mathilde de Château-du-Loir, her large holding passed to the Angevin dynasty upon her marriage to Foulques V of Anjou.
- Relation to Me: 28 GGM
- Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Anjou, Queen of Jerusalem
- Name: Ermengarde Ermentrude Du MAINE
- Name: Ermengarde of Maine
- Birth: Abt 1096, Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France
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Died:
Age: 34Children:
- 2. PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.
- PLANTAGENET COUNTESS OF FLANDERS, Sibylle Anjou was born on 16 Nov 1112 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died in 1165 in Judea, Canaan, Palestine, Israel.
- KING OF JERUSALEM, Baldwin III Latin was born in 1125; died in 1162.
- NORMANDY, Matilda DAnjou Duchess was born in 1116 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died in 1119.
- DE MAINE, de Anjou Plantagenet Helias was born in 1111 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1151 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.
6. HENRY, King of England I was born in 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England (son of WILLIAM, I and COUNTESS OF FLANDERS, Matilda); died on 1 Dec 1135 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried on 4 Jan 1136 in Berkshire, England.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Relation to Me: 28 GGF
- Name: Henry Beauclerc
- Royalty & Nobility: Between 1100 and 1136; King of England and Duke of the Normans
Notes:
Considered by contemporaries to be a harsh but effective ruler, Henry skilfully manipulated the barons in England and Normandy. In England, he drew on the existing Anglo-Saxon system of justice, local government and taxation, but also strengthened it with additional institutions, including the royal exchequer and itinerant justices. Normandy was also governed through a growing system of justices and an exchequer. Many of the officials who ran Henry's system were "new men" of obscure backgrounds rather than from families of high status, who rose through the ranks as administrators. Henry encouraged ecclesiastical reform, but became embroiled in a serious dispute in 1101 with Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury,
I + PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda. Matilda (daughter of SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of and SCOTLAND, Margaret of) was born in 1088; died on 1 May 1118; was buried in May 1118. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda was born in 1088 (daughter of SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of and SCOTLAND, Margaret of); died on 1 May 1118; was buried in May 1118.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: Although she is usually called Matilda, she was born with the name Eadgyth (Edith), as Orderic Vitalis notes. Before her marriage to king Henry I, she had been sought in marriage by Alan Rufus of Brittany and William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
- Relation to Me: 28 GGM
- Royalty & Nobility: Princess of Scotland, Queen Consort of England
Notes:
After her death, she was remembered by her subjects as "Matilda the Good Queen" and "Matilda of Blessed Memory", and for a time sainthood was sought for her, though she was never canonized. Matilda is also thought to be the identity of the "Fair Lady" mentioned at the end of each verse in the nursery rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. The post-Norman conquest English monarchs to the present day are related to the Anglo-Saxon House of Wessex monarchs via Matilda of Scotland as she was the great-granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside, see House of Wessex family tree.
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Westminster AbbeyChildren:
- 3. MATILDA, Empress was born on 5 Aug 1102 in Middlesex, England; died on 10 Sep 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
Generation: 4
8. ANJOU, Fulk IV of was born in 1043 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (son of GEOFFREY, II and ANJOU, Ermengarde d); died on 14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding the exact number or how many he repudiated.
- Relation to Me: 29 GGF
- Name: le Réchin The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic". He was noted to be " a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis.
- Royalty & Nobility: Between 1068 and 1109; Count of Anjou
Notes:
In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou." The authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is still in existance. The second part, supposedly describing Fulk's own rule, has not been recovered. If he did write it, it is one of the first medieval works of history written by a layman.
The younger brother of count Geoffroy III "le Barbu", Fulk rebelled against his brother and captured him in 1067, and then again in 1068, when he imprisoned his brother again (not releasing him until 1096), and assumed control of the Angevin possessions. He persuaded the French king Phillipe I to accept this arrangement by ceding his paternal heritage of Gâtinais to the king. His later years were troubled by rebellion from his elder son Geoffroy (IV) Martel, who predeceased him, and Fulk was succeeded by his second son Foulques V in 1109.Fulk + MONTFORT, Bertrade of. Bertrade (daughter of DE MONTFORT, Simon I and Living) was born in 1059 in Île-de-France, France; died on 14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. MONTFORT, Bertrade of was born in 1059 in Île-de-France, France (daughter of DE MONTFORT, Simon I and Living); died on 14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: Bertrade, a daughter of Simon I de Montfort, was the center of one of the major scandals of her time. Married to count Fulk IV of Anjou, she was carried off in 1092 by king Philippe I of France, who married her (illegally, as she was still married to Fulk). After years of disputes with the church, which included putting France under an interdict, Philippe finally agreed to have no relations with Bertrade, in 1104. Bertrade continued to use the title of queen, but retired to a monastery after Philippe\'s death in 1108.
- Royalty & Nobility: Queen Consort of the Franks
Notes:
Bertrade and Fulk were married,[1] and they became the parents of a son, Fulk, but in 1092 Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philip I of France. Philip married her on 15 May 1092, despite the fact that they both had spouses living. He was so enamoured of Bertrade that he refused to leave her even when threatened with excommunication. Pope Urban II did excommunicate him in 1095, and Philip was prevented from taking part in the First Crusade. Astonishingly, Bertrade persuaded Philip and Fulk to be friends.
Children:
- 4. ANJOU, King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine Foulques V le Jeune Count of was born in 1092 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 10 Nov 1143 in `Akko, Hazafon, Israel.
10. MAINE, Elias Helie of was born in 1060 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (son of DEBEAUGENCY, Jean I Seigneur DeLaFleche and DU MAINE, Paula Paule Heiress); died on 11 Jul 1110 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.
Elias married DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess in 1092 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. Matilde (daughter of GERVAISE and EREMBURGE) was born in 1055 in Châteauneuf, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; died in Mar 1099 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess was born in 1055 in Châteauneuf, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (daughter of GERVAISE and EREMBURGE); died in Mar 1099 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Other Events and Attributes:
- Relation to Me: 29 GGF
Children:
- 5. DU MAINE, Ermengarde was born on 3 Jul 1094 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.
12. WILLIAM, I was born on 14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France (son of NORMANDY, Robert I Magnificent and Living); died on 9 Sep 1087 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Royalty & Nobility: King of England
- Name: William the Conqueror
Notes:
A minor at the time of the death of his father duke Robert on a pilgrimage in 1035, William's early years as duke were spent surviving the dangerous period of his minority and solidifying his position within Normandy. He obtained the crown of England by his victory over Harold II in the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066. At his death in 1087, his eldest son Robert received Normandy, his second surviving son William received England, and his youngest son Henry (who eventually obtained both England and Normandy) received money.
I married COUNTESS OF FLANDERS, Matilda in 1050 in Castle of Angi, France. Matilda (daughter of FLANDERS, Baldwin V of and FRANCE, Adela of, daughter of FRANCE, Adela of) was born on 24 Nov 1031; died on 2 Nov 1083 in Bickleigh, Devon, England; was buried in Bickleigh, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. COUNTESS OF FLANDERS, Matilda was born on 24 Nov 1031 (daughter of FLANDERS, Baldwin V of and FRANCE, Adela of, daughter of FRANCE, Adela of); died on 2 Nov 1083 in Bickleigh, Devon, England; was buried in Bickleigh, Devon, England.
Notes:
Matilda, the daughter of count Baldwin V of Flanders, was married between 1049 and 1053 to duke William (II) of Normandy, better known as William "the Conqueror", who became king of England by conquest in 1066. On Whitsunday (i.e., Pentecost, 11 May in that year) 1068, Matilda was consecrated as queen at Westminster by archbishop Ealdred
Birth:
Burges, Flanders, FranceChildren:
- 6. HENRY, King of England I was born in 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Dec 1135 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried on 4 Jan 1136 in Berkshire, England.
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14. SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of was born on 26 Mar 1031 in Scotland (son of DUNCAN, I and Living); died on 13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Books About: Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
- Differentiator: Malcolm appears in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth as Malcolm, and also as the anti-hero of its 2009-written (by Noah Lukeman), and historically very inaccurate, successor-play The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II.
- Relation to Me: 29 GGF
- Name: Canmore (ceann mòr) in Scottish Gaelic, "Great Chief"
- Royalty & Nobility: Between 1058 and 1093; King of the Scots
Notes:
Malcolm's long reign, lasting 35 years, preceded the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age. He is the historical equivalent of the character of the same name in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Malcolm III fought a succession of wars against the Kingdom of England, which may have had as their goal the conquest of the English earldom of Northumbria. These wars did not result in any significant advances southwards. Malcolm's main achievement is to have continued a line which would rule Scotland for many years, although his role as "founder of a dynasty" has more to do with the propaganda of his youngest son David, and his descendants, than with any historical reality.Malcolm + SCOTLAND, Margaret of. Margaret (daughter of EDWARD-AETHELING and AGATHA) was born in 1045 in Hungary; died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. SCOTLAND, Margaret of was born in 1045 in Hungary (daughter of EDWARD-AETHELING and AGATHA); died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Books About: Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
- Books About: Queen Margaret of Scotland
- Differentiator: According to John of Worcester, Margaret lived for only three days after learning of the deaths of her husband and eldest son
- Relation to Me: 29 GGM
- Royalty & Nobility: Queen Consort of Scotland; English Princess of the House of Wessex
- Name: Saint Margaret of Scotland, Margaret of Wessex and The Pearl of Scotland
Notes:
Scotland's only royal saint, Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) and of a queen consort of England. According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.
Children:
- 7. PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda was born in 1088; died on 1 May 1118; was buried in May 1118.
- SCOTLAND, King David I of was born in 1084; died on 24 May 1153.