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Plantagenet

The name was derived from the Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjous', wearing a branch of broom plant in his cap, (plante de genet) when he was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The name was used after the 1300's

We first begin our look into OUR Plantagenet family at the beginning as I know it with:

1 William The Conqueror b 1027 Norman d 1087 England
Note: William invaded England defeating the English forces in the Battle of Hastings in Oct.
1066. He became King of England on Christmas Day 1066 and ruled until his death in 1087.
He appointed the Norman nobles to high positions and divided the land among Norman's, forcing most Anglo-Saxons to become servants. William had England surveyed to determine how much property there was in England and who owned it. This survey became known as Doomsday Book. It is claimed that the ancestral lineage of William also is directly traceable to Charlemagne and then on back to Julius Caesar.
married Mathilda of Flander England

Child
1 Henry I b 1070 Yorkshire, England d 1135 England

2 Henry I
Note: Henry I was King of England from 1100-1135

married Saint Mathilda 1110 England
Mathilda was the daughter of the King of Scotland, Malcolm III (1024-1093) and his 2nd wife St. Margaret, Queen of England and Scotland. Malcolm III's father was King Duncan of Scotland of whom William Shakespeare wrote in "MacBeth". Margaret is a descendant of Alfred the Great who was King of England (871-899). St. Margaret's ancestors were all early Angle Kings, extending back to King Ingild, ancestor of Alfred the Great.

    Children
    1 Robert of Gloucester d 1147
    2 Sybil
    3 Richard d 1120
    4 Mathilda of England b 1112 England d 1164 England
    5 William "The Atheling" b bef Aug 1103 Winchester, England d Nov 25 1120

PLANTAGENET COAT OF ARMS 3 Mathilda of England
married Geoffrey V of Anjou Plantagenet in 1132 in England

Note: Geoffrey became Count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine in 1129. His father was Fulk V (1092-1144), Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem. Fulk V is a lineal descendant of Pepin, the King of Lombardy and Italy. This Pepin was the son of Charlemagne (721-814), "Emperor of the West" and was the gr. grandson of Charles Martel (688-741). Some genealogists claim that the
lineal ancestry is easily traceable from here to Julius Caesar, 1st of Caesar's who lived c300 B.C.
In the line between Caesar and Clovis stands the name of King Colius II of Britain whose name
has been preserved in "Mother Goose Tales" as "Old King Cole".

    Children
    1 Henry Plantagenet II b 1133 LeMans, France d 1189 Chinon Castle, France
    2 Geoffrey Plantagenet VI b 1134 d 1158 Nantes, Brittany
    3 William Plantagenet b 1136   d 1164 Normandy, France

4 Henry II Plantagenet
Note: Henry II was King of England from 1154-1189, he was the first of the Plantagenet Kings. Henry was unfortunate in love, relentlessly and romantically pursuing the hand of his wife Eleanor, who became a selfish spoil lady, and who turned her sons against their own father. A rebellion by the eldest son, Henry was crushed and Eleanor was placed under house arrest for fifteen years.
married Eleanor of Aquitaine 1152 in Bordeaux, France

    Children
    1 William Plantagenet b 1152 Normandy, France d 1156 Berkshire, England
    2 Henry Plantagenet "The Young King" b 1155 Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England d1183 France
    3 Matilda Plantagenet b 1156 Berkshire, England   d 1189 Brunswick, Germany
    4 Richard Plantagenet b England d 1199 France
            Richard was named "Richard the Lion-Hearted" King of England from 1189-1199. He was killed during the siege of a French Castle. Richard was succeeded by his brother John.
    5 Geoffrey II Plantagenet   b 1158    d 1186 Paris, France
    6 Eleanor Plantagenet b 1162 Normandy, France d 1214 Castile
    7 Joan Plantagenet b 1165 Anjou, France   d 1199 France
    8 John Plantagenet b 1167 Oxford, England d 1216 Worcester, England

5 King John I "Lackland" Plantagenet
     Note: John was King of England 1199-1216. Sign to 'Magna Carta'
            John was a very spoilt and selfish person. He continually conspired against the people who cared for him and treacherously conspired with the King of France to bring about his brother, Richard's downfall. His father called him Lacland, due to the fact that by the time he was born, the King had already apportioned out all his lands to the elder children.
    married Isabella Taillefer 1200 in Bordeaux, France

    Children
    1 Henry Plantagenet III b 1207 Winchester, England d 1272 Westminster Abbey, London, England
    2 Richard Plantagenet b 1209 Winchester, England   d 1272 Newark, England
    3 Joan Plantagenet b 1210 Gloucestershire, England d 1237 London, England
    4 Isabella Plantagenet b 1214 Gloucestershire, England   d 1241 Foggia
    5 Eleanor Katherine Plantagenet b 1215 Gloucester, England   d 1275 Montargis, France

6 Henry III Plantagenet
Note: Henry III was King of England 1216-1272
married Eleanor Berenger 1236 in England at Canterbury Cathedral

    Children
    1 Edward Plantagenet I b 1239 Westminster, England d 1307 Westminster, England
    2 Margaret Plantagenet b 1240 Berkshire, England d 1274 Scotland
    3 Beatrice Plantagenet b 1242 Bordeaux, France d 1274 London, England
    4 Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet b 1244 London, England d 1296
    5 Richard Plantagenet b abt 1247 d bef 1256
    6 William Plantagenet b abt 1252
    7 Katherine Plantagenet b 1253 Westminster, England d 1257 Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
    8 Henry Plantagenet b 1256 d 1257

7 King Edward I "Longshanks" Plantagenet
Edward was King of England 1272-1307
married Eleanor of Castile 1254 Castile, Spain

    Children
    1 Eleanor Plantagenet b 1264 Berkshire, England d 1297 Ghent
    2 Joan Plantagenet b 1265    d 1265
    3 John Plantagenet b 1266 Berkshire, England   d 1271 London, England
    4 Henry Plantagenet b 1267 Berkshire, England d 1274 Surrey, England
    5 Julian Katherine Plantagenet b 1271 Holy land   d 1271 Holy land
    6 Joan Plantagenet b 1272 Acre, Palestine   d 1307 Suffolk, England
    7 Alfonso Plantagenet b 1273 Bordeaux, France   d 1284 Berkshire, England
    8 Margaret Plantagenet b 1275 Berkshire, England d 1318 Belgium
    9 Berengaria Plantagenet b 1276 Kennington   d abt 1279
10 Mary Plantagenet b 1277 Berkshire, England d bef 1332 Wiltshire
11 Isabella Plantagenet b 1278 Woodstock, England d 1291
12 Elizabeth Plantagenet b 1282 England d 1316 England
        married Humphrey De Bohun VIII
13 Edward Plantagenet II b 1284 Wales   d 1327 Westminster, England
14 Beatrice Plantagenet b 1286 Aquitaine
15 Blanche Plantagenet b 1290     d 1290

After the death of Eleanor, Edward married again in 1299 at Canterbury Cathedral to Marguerite, of France and had 3 more children

8 King Edward II Plantagenet
     Note: Edward II was King of England 1307-1327
    married Isabella (daughter of King Phillip IV of France)
                Note: Isabella of France, together with her lover, Roger Mortimer, staged a rebellion which overthrew the king in 1326. In 1327 they forced Edward to renounce the throne in favor of his son, Edward II. Edwards was then tortured and brutally murdered in Berkeley.

    Children
    1 Adam Plantagenet b abt 1310
    2 Edward III Plantagenet b 1312 Windsor Castle, England d 1377 Westminster, England
    3 John Plantagenet b 1316 Kent   d 1336 Perth
    4 Eleanor Plantagenet b 1318 Woodstock, England d 1355 Deventer
    5 Joanna "Of The Tower" Plantagenet b 1321 London, England   d 1362 Hertford

9 King Edward III Plantagenet
Note: Edward III was King of England 1327-1377. The start of Edwards life was in the shadow of his mother and her lover Mortimer. They used Edward as their puppet. Eventually at the age of 17, Edward began to assert himself, although for many years he lived in the shadow of his father's weak and costly reign, he gained the respect of England.
married Phillippa 1329 England

    Children
    1 Edward "The Black Prince" b 1330 England d 1376 England
    2 Isabella Plantagenet b 1332 Woodstock   d bef 1382 London, England
    3 Joan Plantagenet   b 1335 Woodstock d 1348 Bayonne
    4 William Plantagenet b 1336 Hatfield d bef 1337
    5 Lionel "Duke of Clarence" Plantagenet b 1338 Belgium d 1363 Dublin, Ireland
    6 John Plantagenet b 1340 Flanders d 1399 Leicester Castle
    7 Edmund "Duke of York" Plantagenet b 1341 Herts   d 1402 Herts
    8 Blanche "Of The Tower" Plantagenet b 1342 Tower of London d 1342 Tower of London
    9 Mary Plantagenet b 1344 Winchester, England d 1361/62
10 Margaret Plantagenet   b 1346 Berkshire, England   d 1361
11 William Plantagenet   b 1348 Berkshire, England   d 1348
12 Thomas Plantagenet   b 1354 Woodstock   d 1396 Westminster, England

10 Thomas Plantagenet
Note: Thomas was Duke of Gloucester and King's Guard of Woodstock in 1385
married Eleanor De Bohun

Child
1 Ann Plantagenet b April 1383 England d Oct 16 1438 Gwet, Wales

11 Ann Plantagenet
Note: Ann was Countess of Buckingham
married Sir William Bourchier II Knt 1400 England

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