Known as Martel, le Bel, and Plantagenet.
Count of Anjou and of Maine
Events
Date of Birth: 24 August 1113.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Cokayne (p. 69).
Date of Death: 14 September 1151.
Place of Death: Château-du-Loir.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 223). The place is given by Cokayne (p. 69), who gives the date as 7 September 1151.
Place of Burial: the Cathedral Church of St Julien at le Mans.
The place is given by Cokayne (p. 69).
Relationships
Father: Foulques V d’Anjou (1092 - 1143).
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 223), by Schein, and by Baldwin.
Mother: Eremburge de la Flèche, countess of Maine.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 223) and by Baldwin.
Spouse: Matilda, the Empress (1102 - 1167). Married 17 June 1128 at Le Mans.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 223), by Baldwin, and by Riley-Smith (p. 10).
Children (by Matilda):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)
Henry II (1133 - 1183) married Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152. Henry was king of England 1154-1183.
Geoffroy (1 June 1134 - July 1158). Geoffroy was count of Nantes.
Guillaume (22 July 1136 - 30 January 1164).
Children (by unknown mistresses):
Hamelin (died 7 May 1202), vicomte of Touraine, earl of Warenne (Surrey) married Isabel de Warenne.
Emma married Dafydd ap Owain Gwynedd, prince of North Wales, in 1174.
Mary, abbess of Shaftesbury.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Geoffrey V "le Bel" or "Plantagenet"” in The Henry Project.
Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. “Families, Crusades, and Settlement in the Latin East, 1102-1131” in Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East (Variorum: 2008).
Schein, S. "Fulco" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).