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Geoffrey Plantagenet , Count

b. 24 Aug 1114  |  d. 7 Sep 1151

Most distant known ancestor in this line

Events

Birth
24 Aug 1114
Death
7 Sep 1151

Family

Spouse: (Maud) Mathilda (1104–1169) · m. 22 May 1128

Children:

  1. Henry II Plantagenet (5 Mar 1133–6 Jul 1189)
    m. Eleanor de Aquitaine (1123–31 Mar 1204) · 1 May 1152/53
    Children: Matilda (Maud) Plantagenet (1156–1189); John Lackland Plantagenet (1166–1216)
    m. Rosamund Clifford
    Children: William de Longespee (1176–1226)

Notes

Count of Anjou (a province in France). Supposedly he wore a spring of a plant called "plantagenet", and this was adopted as the surname of him and all his English male descendants. He was also Duke of Normandy.