PLANTAGENET, Henry II King of England

1133 - 1189  (56 years)

• Name	PLANTAGENET, Henry II
  Suffix	King of England
  Birth	5 Mar 1133	Le Mans, France
  Gender	Male
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  Death	6 Jul 1189	Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
  Burial	8 Jul 1189	Fontevrault, ME-Et-Loire, France
  Person ID	I26499	Puffers
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey 5th Count of Anjou,   b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 7 Sep 1151, France (Age 38 years)
  Mother	Matilda Maud Empress Of Germany,   b. Jun 1102, London, London, England d. 10 Sep 1169, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	22 May 1127	Le Mans, France
  Family ID	F6162	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eleanor Princess Of Aquitaine,   b. 1121, Chateau De Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine d. 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1152	Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
  Children	1. PLANTAGENET, William Prince of England,   b. 17 Aug 1152, Le Mans, France d. Apr 1156, Wallingford, Berkshire, England (Age 3 years)   2. PLANTAGENET, Henry King of England,   b. 28 Mar 1155, London, London, England d. 11 Jun 1183, Chateau De Mortel, Turenne, Aquitaine (Age 28 years)   3. PLANTAGENET, Matilda Princess Of England,   b. 1156, London, London, England d. 28 Jun 1189, Brunswick, Germany (Age 33 years)   4. PLANTAGENET, Richard King of England I,   b. 13 Sep 1157, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 6 Apr 1199, Chalus, France (Age 41 years)   5. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey Duke of Brittany II,   b. 23 Sep 1158, England d. 19 Aug 1186, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 27 years)   6. PLANTAGENET, Philip Prince of England,   b. Abt 1160, England d. Between 1160 and 1162 (Age 0 years)   7. PLANTAGENET, Eleanor Princess Of England,   b. 13 Oct 1162, Domfront, Normandy, France d. 25 Oct 1214, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain (Age 52 years)   8. PLANTAGENET, Joanna Princess of England,   b. Oct 1164, Angers, Anjou, France d. 4 Sep 1199, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 34 years)   9. PLANTAGENET, John King of England,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F7115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	CLIFFORD, Rosamond De,   b. Abt 1136, Herefordshire, England d. Abt 1176, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (Age 40 years)
  Children	1. PLANTAGENET, William Prince of England,   b. Abt 1173, England d. 07 Mar 1225/26, England (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F7116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  On the death of his father, in 1151, he succeeded to the earldom of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine, and in the following year, by his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the divorced wife of Louis VII. of France, he became possessor of the duchy of Aquitaine or Guienne. The same year he invaded England, but a treaty was concluded, in 1153, by which it was agreed that he should succeed to the throne of England on the death of Stephen. In 1162 Thomas a Becket was elected Archbishop of Canterbury, and the great struggle between the civil and ecclesiastical powers began, which resulted in the Constitutions of Clarendon, the exile and murder of Becket, war with France, the king's penance at Becket's tomb, and the repeal of the Constitutions. In 1171 Henry invaded Ireland and, under the authority of a bull of Pope Adrian IV., which had been published in 1156, effected a conquest of that island.