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HENRY, II

HENRY, II

Male 1133 - 1189  (56 years)

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  • Name HENRY, II  [1] 
    Birth 5 Mar 1133  Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 5 Mar 1133  Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 6 Jul 1189  Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Differentiator Henry II appears as a character in several modern plays and films. He is a central character in James Goldman's 1966 play The Lion in Winter, set in 1183 and presenting an imaginary encounter between Henry's immediate family and Philip Augustus over Christmas at Chinon. 
    Relation to Me 26 GGF 
    Royalty & Nobility Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland 
    Royalty & Nobility King of England 
    Name Henry II Curtmantle Plantagenet  [2] 
    Death 6 Jul 1189  Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    GEOFFREY, II   d. Between 1043 and 1046  (2 x Great Grandfather) 
    AGATHA,   b. Bef 1030   d. Aft 1070  (Age > 42 years)  (2 x Great Grandmother) 
    Person ID I749  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

    Father PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V,   b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Sep 1151, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother MATILDA, Empress,   b. 5 Aug 1102, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Sep 1169, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 22 May 1127  Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F20  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 DE TOSNY, Ida,   b. Abt 1155   d. Bef 1221 (Age < 65 years) 
    Other Partners: LE BIGOD, Sir Knight Roger  m. 1181 
    Children 
     1. LONGESPEE, William,   b. 1176   d. 1225 (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1874  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

    Family 2 OF AQUITAINE, Duchess of Acquitaine Eleanor,   b. 6 Dec 1122, Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1204, Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Other Partners: FRANCE, King Louis VII of  m. 1137 
    Marriage 18 May 1152  Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. ENGLAND, Richard I of,   b. 8 Sep 1157, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1199, Chalus, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    ▻ NAVARRE, Berengaria Princess of  m. 12 May 1191
     2. ENGLAND, King John of,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1216 (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey Duke of Brittany,   b. 23 Sep 1158, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Aug 1186, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. PLANTAGENET, William,   b. 1160, Beaumont, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1160, Beaumont, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. KING OF ENGLAND, Henry The Younger,   b. 28 Mar 1155, Bermandsey Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jun 1183, Martel, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. PLANTAGENET, Matilda Maud Princess England,   b. 1156, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1189, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. ENGLAND, Eleanor of,   b. 13 Oct 1162, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1214, Burgos, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. PLANTAGANET, Joan (Joanna) Queen of Sicily,   b. Oct 1165, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1199, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F178  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 5 Mar 1133 - Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 5 Mar 1133 - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 18 May 1152 - Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Jul 1189 - Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Jul 1189 - Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
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    Henry II Tomb
    Jindra_Eleonora

    Documents
    Henry II of England - Wikipedia    		Henry II of England - Wikipedia
    Henry II, king of England    		Henry II, king of England

  • Notes 
    • Henry was not a popular king and few expressed much grief on news of his death. Writing in the 1190s, William of Newburgh commented that "in his own time he was hated by almost everyone"; he was widely criticised by his own contemporaries, even within his own court. Many of the changes Henry introduced during his long rule, however, had major long-term consequences. His legal changes are generally considered to have laid the basis for English Common Law, with the Exchequer court a forerunner of the later Common Bench at Westminster. Henry's itinerant justices also influenced his contemporaries' legal reforms: Philip Augustus' creation of itinerant bailli, for example, clearly drew on the Henrician model. Henry's intervention in Brittany, Wales and Scotland also had a significant long-term impact on the development of their societies and governmental systems.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1416] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).

    2. [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
      Record for Geoffroi V le Bon PLANTAGENET
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-630763368&indiv=try


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