King of England Henry II

1133 - 1189  (56 years)

• Name	King of England Henry II
  Born	5 Mar 1133	Le Mans, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Jul 1189
  Buried	Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou
  Person ID	I5772	Larry and Carole King Murray Tree
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey (Count of Anjou), IV
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Matilda Maud,   b. Bef 5 Aug 1102
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F1182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor of Aquitaine,   b. Abt 1122, France ,   d. 31 Mar 1204  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Married	18 May 1152
  Children	1. Richard (the Lion-Hearted), I,   b. 8 Sep 1157, Oxford, England ,   d. 6 Apr 1199, Chalus, Aquitaine  (Age 41 years)  [natural]   2. John "Lackland" King of England,   b. 24 Dec 1167, Oxford, England ,   d. 18 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire  (Age 48 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2019
  Family ID	F1118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Henry II was the first monarch of the house of Anjou, or Plantagenet. (Plantagenet is the surname of the English royal house of Anjou or the Angevin dynasty, founded by Geoffrey IV, County of Anjou (1113-1151), who married the daughter of King Henry I of England. Reigning from 1154 to 1485, the Plantagenet kinds, in the main line of descent, began with Henry II and ended with Richard III.) Henry became Duke of Normandy in 1151. He 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. In 1153, Henry defeated Stephen's armies and compelled the King to choose him as his successor; on Stephen's death in 1154, Henry became King. In 1164, Henry became involved in a quarrel with Thomas a Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, over Henry's efforts to subject the church to his courts. In 1170, Becket was murdered by four of Henry's knights. Widespread indignation over the murder forced the King to recognize Becket as a martyr.