Henry II King England, 'Plantagenet'

b 05 Mar 1133, , Le Mans, Sarthe, France
d 06 Jul 1189, , Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France
bur 08 Jul 1189, Abbey At, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France			Geoffroy II Count Gastinois	>
61 18 May 1933,		Foulques IV, Count Anjou	Ermengarde De Countess Anjou, [Countess]	>
	Foulques V 'le_jeune' Anjou, [King]	b 1033	Simon I Montfort, [Seigneur de]	>
	\| b 1092	Bertrade De Montfort, [Queen of France	Agnes D' Evreux	>
Geoffrey V (The_Handsome) Plantagenet, Count of Anjou	d 10 Nov 1143	b 1059	John De La Fleche
\|b 24 Aug 1113	\|	Elias (Helie), Count Maine	Paula
\|d 07 Sep 1151	Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du Maine, [Countess]	b 1060	Gervase Seigneur De Chateau_Du_Loire	>
\|	b 1096	Matilde De Chateau_Du_Loire, [Countess]	Erenburg, Mrs De Chateau_Du_Loire
Henry II King England, 'Plantagenet'	d 1126	b 1055	Robert I Normandy	>
\|Rosamond Clifford-4 +		William I 'The_Conqueror' England, [Duke]	Harlette De Falaise	>
\|	Henry I 'Beauclerc' England, [King]	b 14 Oct 1024	Baldwin V Count Flanders	>
\|	\|b 1070	Matilda Countess Of Flanders, [Queen]	Adele (Alix) Princess France	>
Matilda (Maud) Princess England, Empress	d 01 Dec 1135	b 1031	Duncan I, King Scotland	>
b 05 Aug 1102	\|	Malcolm III, King Scotland	Sibyl Fitzsiward, [Queen]	>
d 10 Sep 1169	Matilda 'Atheling' Princess Scotland	b 1033	Edward 'Atheling', Prince England, [The Exile]	>
	b ABT 1079 1080	Margaret 'Atheling', Princess England, [Queen]	Agatha Of Hungary Augsburg	>
	d 01 May 1118	b ABT 1043 1045

Notes

Henry II 'Curt Mantel,' Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine and Anjou, King Of England became king in 1154. At the height of his power, Henry ruled England and almost all western France. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most famous woman of the age, brought the duchy of Aquitaine under his control. Henry also claimed to rule Scotland, Wales, and eastern Ireland.

Henry II carried on his grandfather's policy of limiting the power of the nobles. He also tried to make the Roman Catholic Church in England submit to his authority. This policy brought him into conflict with Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Four of the king's knights murdered Becket while he was at vespers in his cathedral.

Henry made Anglo-Saxon common law, rather than the revised Roman law, the supreme law of the land. He introduced trial by jury and circuit courts. In his later years, Henry's sons often rebelled against him. Two of them, Richard the Lion-Hearted and John, became the next two kings of England.

Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p H178. 'Royalty for Commoners', Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 37-38.

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