Individual Details
Geoffrey "Plantagenet, Comte d'Anjou, The Fair" Anjou
(24 Aug 1113 - 7 Sep 1151)
[[Category: Second Crusade]] [[Category: House of Anjou]] [[Category: The Anarchy]]
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Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (24 Aug 1113 – 7 Sep 1151), was first to use the Plantagenet name but Weir, says it more of a nickname.Weir, A. (n.d.). Eleanor of Aquitaine. N.p. Edward IV was the first to use it Plantaganet officially, while Henry II is established the "Plantagenet" line.
Henry I sent legates to negotiate marriage between 15 year old Geoffrey and the older dowager empress, Matilda. The marriage was meant to forge peace between England/Normandy and Anjou. On 10 June 1128, fifteen-year-old Geoffrey was knighted in Rouen by Henry for the wedding.
A year after Henry I died in 1135, Geoffrey gave Ambrieres, Gorron, and Chatilon-sur-Colmont to Juhel de Mayenne, on the condition he assist in obtaining Matilda's inheritance.Burke: m. 3 Apr 1127; Anc. File: 22 May 1128; 17 JUN 1128 Le Mans. Record for Sir Geoffrey V "the Handsome" Plantagenet Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine Duke of Normandy;
Geoffrey put down three baronial rebellions in Anjou, in 1129, 1135, and 1145–1151. He was often at odds with his younger brother, Elias, who he had imprisoned until 1151. The threat of rebellion slowed his progress in Normandy, and is one reason he could not intervene in England.
On 7 September 1151, Geoffrey died suddenly. According to John of Marmoutier, Geoffrey was returning from a royal council when he came down with a fever. He arrived at Château-du-Loir, collapsed on a couch, made bequests of gifts and charities, and died. He was buried at St. Julien's Cathedral in Le Mans France.
==Vitals==
: nickname: The Fair; The Handsome; Plantagenet, French: le Bel
: b. 24 AUG 1113 at Anjou or Rouen
: d. 07 Sep 1151 Château-du-Loir,
: bur. Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans
==Titles==
* 1129: Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Mainehis right
* Sum 1144 -50: Duke of Normandyby conquest
==Parents==
[[Foulques-3|Fulk of Jerusalem]] m. btw 1105 - 1134 [[De Maine-18|Erembourg de Maine]]Father: Elias I of Maine
==Marriage and Issue ==
m. 1127/8 [[Plantagenet England-1|Empress Matilda "Maud"]]. Issue:
* Henry "Curtmantle" II
'''Illegitimate issue''':
* Hamelineby mistress: BET 1132 AND 1148. a few sources identify her as Adelaide of Angers. (Wikipedia; Alison Weir).
* Emme m. Dafydd Ab Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales
* Mary, Abbess of Shaftesbury
==Religion==
* 1144: founded an Augustine priory at Chateau-l'Ermitage in Anjou.
== Sources==
*Henry II project: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/geoff005.htm
*'''Royal Ancestry,''' 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 12 (ii)
*'''Royal Ancestry,''' 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 19-20 :'''GEOFEREY PLANTAGENET''', Count of Anjou and Maine, Knt., son and heir of Foulques V ''le Jeune'', Count of Maine. He was born 24 August 1113. They had three sons, Henry (II) [King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou], Geoffrey [Count of Anjou and Nantes], and William Longespee. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), Geoffrey also had one illegitimate son, Hamelin [5th Earl of Surrey], and two illegitimate daughters, Emma and Mary [Abbess of Shaftesbury]. GEOFFREY, Count, of Anjou and Maine, died at Chateau-du-Loir 7 Sept. 1151, and was buried in St. Julien's, Le Mans, Maine.
*Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie Introduction (1909): 135-144. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 54-58 (biog. of Empress Maud: 15 (1909) 1284-1285 (" ,,, Inveterate usage has attached the surname Plantagenet to the great house which occupied the English throne from 1154 to 1485, but the family did not assume the surname until the middle of the fifteenth century").
*Chartrou-Charbonnel L'Anjou de 1109 a 1151: Foulque de Jerusalem et Geoffroi Plantegenet (1928).
*Rubel-Blass Ahnentafel Rubel-Blass 1 (1939): 252 (ancestry of Geoffrey Plantagenet), 257 (ancestry of Maud of England).
*Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London, England: The St. Catherine Press Ltd., 1910-1916.
[[Wikipedia:Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou]]
[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ANJOU,%20MAINE.htm#GeoffroyVdied1151B fmg.ac]
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Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (24 Aug 1113 – 7 Sep 1151), was first to use the Plantagenet name but Weir, says it more of a nickname.Weir, A. (n.d.). Eleanor of Aquitaine. N.p. Edward IV was the first to use it Plantaganet officially, while Henry II is established the "Plantagenet" line.
Henry I sent legates to negotiate marriage between 15 year old Geoffrey and the older dowager empress, Matilda. The marriage was meant to forge peace between England/Normandy and Anjou. On 10 June 1128, fifteen-year-old Geoffrey was knighted in Rouen by Henry for the wedding.
A year after Henry I died in 1135, Geoffrey gave Ambrieres, Gorron, and Chatilon-sur-Colmont to Juhel de Mayenne, on the condition he assist in obtaining Matilda's inheritance.Burke: m. 3 Apr 1127; Anc. File: 22 May 1128; 17 JUN 1128 Le Mans. Record for Sir Geoffrey V "the Handsome" Plantagenet Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine Duke of Normandy;
Geoffrey put down three baronial rebellions in Anjou, in 1129, 1135, and 1145–1151. He was often at odds with his younger brother, Elias, who he had imprisoned until 1151. The threat of rebellion slowed his progress in Normandy, and is one reason he could not intervene in England.
On 7 September 1151, Geoffrey died suddenly. According to John of Marmoutier, Geoffrey was returning from a royal council when he came down with a fever. He arrived at Château-du-Loir, collapsed on a couch, made bequests of gifts and charities, and died. He was buried at St. Julien's Cathedral in Le Mans France.
==Vitals==
: nickname: The Fair; The Handsome; Plantagenet, French: le Bel
: b. 24 AUG 1113 at Anjou or Rouen
: d. 07 Sep 1151 Château-du-Loir,
: bur. Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans
==Titles==
* 1129: Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Mainehis right
* Sum 1144 -50: Duke of Normandyby conquest
==Parents==
[[Foulques-3|Fulk of Jerusalem]] m. btw 1105 - 1134 [[De Maine-18|Erembourg de Maine]]Father: Elias I of Maine
==Marriage and Issue ==
m. 1127/8 [[Plantagenet England-1|Empress Matilda "Maud"]]. Issue:
* Henry "Curtmantle" II
'''Illegitimate issue''':
* Hamelineby mistress: BET 1132 AND 1148. a few sources identify her as Adelaide of Angers. (Wikipedia; Alison Weir).
* Emme m. Dafydd Ab Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales
* Mary, Abbess of Shaftesbury
==Religion==
* 1144: founded an Augustine priory at Chateau-l'Ermitage in Anjou.
== Sources==
*Henry II project: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/geoff005.htm
*'''Royal Ancestry,''' 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 12 (ii)
*'''Royal Ancestry,''' 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 19-20 :'''GEOFEREY PLANTAGENET''', Count of Anjou and Maine, Knt., son and heir of Foulques V ''le Jeune'', Count of Maine. He was born 24 August 1113. They had three sons, Henry (II) [King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou], Geoffrey [Count of Anjou and Nantes], and William Longespee. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), Geoffrey also had one illegitimate son, Hamelin [5th Earl of Surrey], and two illegitimate daughters, Emma and Mary [Abbess of Shaftesbury]. GEOFFREY, Count, of Anjou and Maine, died at Chateau-du-Loir 7 Sept. 1151, and was buried in St. Julien's, Le Mans, Maine.
*Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie Introduction (1909): 135-144. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 54-58 (biog. of Empress Maud: 15 (1909) 1284-1285 (" ,,, Inveterate usage has attached the surname Plantagenet to the great house which occupied the English throne from 1154 to 1485, but the family did not assume the surname until the middle of the fifteenth century").
*Chartrou-Charbonnel L'Anjou de 1109 a 1151: Foulque de Jerusalem et Geoffroi Plantegenet (1928).
*Rubel-Blass Ahnentafel Rubel-Blass 1 (1939): 252 (ancestry of Geoffrey Plantagenet), 257 (ancestry of Maud of England).
*Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London, England: The St. Catherine Press Ltd., 1910-1916.
[[Wikipedia:Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou]]
[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ANJOU,%20MAINE.htm#GeoffroyVdied1151B fmg.ac]
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Events
| Birth | 24 Aug 1113 | Anjou, France | |||
| Death | 7 Sep 1151 | Château-du-Loir, France | |||
| Reference No | 130532 | ||||
| Reference No | 143953 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Fulk "Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem" Anjou (1092 - 1144) |
| Mother | Ermengarde "Aremburga, Ermentrude, Erembourg, Comtesse d'Anjou" Maine (1092 - 1126) |
| Sibling | Sibylle "Sybil" Anjou (1105 - 1166) |
| Sibling | Isabella "Alice" Anjou (1105 - 1154) |
| Sibling | Elias Anjou (1111 - 1150) |
| Sibling | Helie "Comte du Maine" Anjou (1114 - 1152) |