Henry II Plantagenet, King of England
- Born: 5 Mar 1133, Lemans, Sarthe, France 759,760,765
- Marriage (1): Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine on 18 May 1153 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France 759,760
- Unmarried (2): Annabel de Balliol
- Unmarried (3): Rosamond de Clifford
- Marriage (4): Ykenai Hikenai
- Died: 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, Indre-et-Loire, France at age 56 759,760,765,771
- Buried: 8 Jul 1189, Fontevrault Abbey, Pays de la Loire, France
Another name for Henry was Henry Curtmantle.
General Notes:
Notes on Henry II, King of England
Henry, born at Le Mans, inherited the titles of Count of Anjou, and Duke of Normandy in 1151. The following year, on the death of his father, he inherited the Angevin territories in France. By his marriage in 1152 to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry added vast territories in south-western France to his possessions. Henry claimed the English kingship through his mother, Matilda. She had been designated the heiress of Henry I but had been deprived of the succession by her cousin, Stephen of Blois, who made himself King. In 1153, Henry defeated Stephen’s armies in England and compelled the King to choose him as his successor; on Stephen’s death, the following year, Henry became king. During the first few years of his reign, Henry quelled the disorders that had developed during Stephen’s reign, regained the northern counties of England, which had previously been ceded to Scotland, and conquered North Wales. In 1171-72 he began the Norman conquest of Ireland and in 1174 forced William the Lyon, King of the Scots, to recognize him as overlord. In 1164 Henry became involved in a quarrel with Thomas a Becket, a childhood friend and military companion, whom he had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. By the Constitutions of Clarendon, the King decreed that priests accused of crimes should be tried in royal courts; Becket claimed that such cases should be handled by ecclesiastical courts. The controversy that followed ended in 1170 with Becket’s murder by four of Henry’s knights who believed they were following Henry’s wish to be rid of "that troblesome priest". Widespread indignation over the murder forced the King to rescind his decree and recognize Becket as a martyr. Although he failed to subject the church to his courts, Henry’s judicial reforms were of lasting significance. In England, he established a centralized system of justice accessible to all freemen and administered by judges who traveled around the country at regular intervals. He also began the process of replacing the old trial by ordeal with modern court procedures. From the beginning of his reign, Henry was involved in conflict with Louis VII, King of France, and later with Louis’s successor, Philip II, over the French provinces that Henry claimed. A succession of rebellions against Henry, headed by his sons and furthered by Philip II and by Eleanor of Aquitaine, began in 1173 and continued until his death at Chinon, France, on 6 Jul 1189. Henry was succeeded by his son Richard I, called Richard Lion-Heart. [GADD.GED]
Encouraged the settlement of Dutch and Flemish woollen experts in South Pembrokeshire. [THELMA.GED]
Henry II King of England (1154-89), the first monarch of the House of Anjou, or Plantagenet, an important administrative reformer, who was one of the most powerful European rulers of his time. [unknown.GED]
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12th Duke of Normandy 1150-1189
Noted events in his life were:
• Title: Count of Anjou, 1151-1189.
• Title: Duke of Normandy, 1151-1189.
• Title: Duke of Aquitaine, 1152-1168. (Henry I)
• Title: King of England, 1154-1189.
Henry married Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine and Eleanor de Chatellerault, on 18 May 1153 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France 759.,760 (Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1121-1122 in Chateau de Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine,631,760,765 died on 31 Mar 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Tarn-et-Garonne, France 498,631,760,765 and was buried in 1204 in Fontevrault Abbey, Pays de la Loire, France 631.)
Henry also had a relationship with Annabel de Balliol, daughter of Bernard II de Balliol, 2nd Baron of Bywell and Unknown. (Annabel de Balliol was born in 1153 766 and died on 31 Mar 1204 766.)
Henry also had a relationship with Rosamond de Clifford, daughter of Walter de Clifford and Margaret de Toeni. (Rosamond de Clifford was born about 1136 in Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England,631 died about 1176 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England 631 and was buried about 1176 in Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, England 631.)
Henry next married Ykenai Hikenai.
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