Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou


Geoffrey V called the Handsome or the Fair and Plantagenet was the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry160I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne as King Henry II and founded the Plantagenet dynasty the name of which was taken from Geoffreys epithet.

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