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    Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Handsome, the Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine...
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  • Geoffrey VI (1 June 1134 – 27 July 1158) was Count of Nantes from 1156 to 1158. He was also known as Geoffrey of Anjou and Geoffrey FitzEmpress. He was...
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    12th century Count Geoffrey created the nucleus of what became the Angevin Empire. The adjectival form is Angevin, and inhabitants of Anjou are known as...
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  • Geoffrey Plantagenet may refer to: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151), Count of Anjou, father of Henry II of England and the first to be...
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    also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the Houses of Lancaster and York, two of the Plantagenets cadet...
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  • The count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son...
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  • youngest of the three sons of Empress Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. His brothers were Henry II of England and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes...
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    Plantagenet founder Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, and his family experimented with different lion-bearing coats until these coalesced during the reign of...
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    I of Scotland, Welsh rebels, and the Empress Matilda's husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. In 1138, the Empress's half-brother Robert of Gloucester...
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    Geoffrey II, called Martel (1006 – 14 November 1060), son of Fulk the Black, was Count of Anjou from 1040 to 1060 and Count of Vendôme from 1032 to 1056...
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  • Geoffrey III of Anjou (in French Geoffroy III d' Anjou) (c. 1040–1096), called le Barbu ("the Bearded"), was the Count of Anjou 1060–68. Geoffrey, born...
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    grandfather, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, in around 1144. By the terms of the settlement, Margaret would bring the castles of the Norman Vexin...
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    demonym for the residents of Anjou and its historic capital, Angers; the Plantagenets were descended from Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou, hence the term. The demonym...
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    the eldest child of the Empress Matilda and her second husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. The French county of Anjou was formed in the 10th...
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    (died 1106) Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151), Duke of Normandy, founder of the House of Plantagenet Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158–1186)...
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    Bearded) was Count of Anjou from 1060 to 1068; Fulk IV Réchin (the Mouth) was count from 1068 to 1109. Fulk IV's grandson, Geoffrey Plantagenet, married Matilda...
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    House of Plantagenet takes its name from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, husband of Empress Matilda and father of Henry II. The name Plantagenet itself...
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    be seen on the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who died in 1151. An enamel, probably commissioned by Geoffrey's widow between 1155 and 1160...
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    error. His half-brother Geoffrey, who was born a year before William, later held that office, which may have been the cause of the confusion. Warren 1995...
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  • abbess of that abbey in 1150, and died in 1154. In 1128, the year when she took her vows, Matilda's brother Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who was...
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  • II of Anjou. He was succeeded in Anjou by his sororal nephew, Geoffrey the Bearded, son of the Count of Gâtinais. Ingelger (870–898), father of Fulk I...
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    ISBN 978-0-901134-77-6. The surname "Plantagenet" has been retrospectively applied to the male-line descendants of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Empress Matilda...
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  • Plantagenet may refer to any John who was a descendant of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou: John, King of England John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford...
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    Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from...
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    to be the first Plantagenet ruler. Henry never formally became Duke of Brittany as he was only holding the duchy on behalf of Geoffrey and Constance. The...
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  • (or Emme) of Anjou (c.1140–c.1214) was an illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and half-sister of King Henry II of England. She...
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  • Geoffrey of Anjou may refer to: Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou (died 987), reigned 958–987, called Greymantle, succeeded his father Fulk II Geoffrey II, Count...
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  • of Anjou, 1040-1096 Fulk IV, Count of Anjou, 1043-1109 Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou, 1070-1106 Fulk, King of Jerusalem, 1089-1143 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count...
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    Heraldry (redirect from Coat of Arms motto)
    can be seen on the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who died in 1151. An enamel, probably commissioned by Geoffrey's widow between 1155 and...
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    half-brother of the first Plantagenet English monarch King Henry II. He was an illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou, the father of King Henry...
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