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Persönliche Daten Geoffrey V "the Fair" Anjou Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy 

• Spitzname ist the Fair.
• Er wurde geboren am 24. August 1113 in Anjou, FRANCE.
• Er ist verstorben am 7. September 1151 in Château-du-Loir, Anjou, FRANCE, er war 38 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Fulk V und Ermentrude
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 31. März 2017.

Familie von Geoffrey V "the Fair" Anjou Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy

Er hat eine Beziehung mit Matilda of England.

Kind(er):

1. Hamelin de Anjou  ± 1129-1202 
2. Henry II  

Notizen bei Geoffrey V "the Fair" Anjou Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy

Names
He was born Geoffroi of Anjou, and was known as Geoffrey the Fair (Geoffroi le Bel) or Geoffroi Plantagenêt. Plantagenêt was not used as the family name until the fifteenth century.

Titles
Geoffrey became Count of Maine when his mother died in 1126 and became Count of Anjou in 1129 when his father abdicated to become King of Jerusalem. He took the title of Count of Mortain from King Sephen in 1141. He also claimed to be Duke of Normandy by right of his wife, but only gained the title by conquest in 1144. He and his wife ceded the duchy to his son, Henry FitzEmpress, in 1150.
1126-1151 1st Angevin Count of Maine
1129-1151 7th Angevin Count of Anjou
1141-1151 1st Angevin Count of Mortain
1144-1150 1st Angevin Duke of Normandy

Genealogy
He was named Plantagenêt for the little yellow flower that he wore on his helmet. He was the count of Anjou. He went swimming in the fall of 1151 and caught a chill. By evening he was running a temperature. He died shortly thereafter. Father Fulk V. Mother Ermentrude, dau. of Count Helias of Maine.
While Matilda contended for the regency in England, Geoffrey undertook to conquer Normandy, which he claimed through his wife. He succeeded in 1144. In 1150 he and Matilda ceded Normandy to their son Henry (later Henry II of England), who founded the English Angevin dynasty.

Plantagenêt, Geoffrey V the Fair, Count of Anjou and Maine
Born: 24 Aug 1113 Acceded: 1129 Died: 7 Sep 1151, Château-du-Loir, France Interred: St. Julian's Church, Le Mans, Anjou Notes: Burke says the marriage was 3 Apr 1127. The name Plantagenêt, according to Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in his helm. Duke of Normandy 1144-1150.
Father: Fulk V the younger of Anjou, Count of Anjou
Mother: Maine, Ermengard
Child 1: Plantagenêt, Emma
Child 2: Mary of Shaftesbury, Abbess of Shaftesbury

Md. 22 May 1128, Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou to Matilda the Empress, Queen of England

Child 3: FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England, b. 25 Mar 1133 Child 4: Geoffrey VI of Anjou, Count of Nantes & Anjou, b. 1 Jun 1134
Child 5: William, Count of Poitou, b. 1136.

Associated with Adelaide of Angers

Child 6: de Warenne, Hamelin of Anjou Plantagenêt, Earl of Surrey 5, b. Abt. 1129
References
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (EA) Encyclopedia Americana, 1951, v. 11 p. 725.
↑ (SHEP) A Short History of the English People, pp. 97-101.
↑ (MCS5) The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th ed, p. 189, Line 161.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 (CH2) Pedigrees of Some of The Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants Vol.II, p. 285.
↑ Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Geoffrey V (24 Aug 1113 – 7 Sep 1151) — called the Handsome and Plantagenêt — 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, dau. and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenêt dynasty to which Geoffrey gave his nickname.

Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenêt Ancestry. (2004, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD), 1.
Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
GEOFFROY d’Anjou, son of FOULQUES V Comte d'Anjou & his first wife Eremburge Ctss du Maine (24 Aug 1113 -Château du Loire 7 Sep 1151, bur. Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Geoffrey Plantagenêt, in Find A Grave.
Geoffrey V "le Bel" or "Plantagenêt", in Baldwin, Stewart and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.

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