Henry II, king of England

King of England

Duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine

Count of Anjou

Events

Date of Birth: 5 March 1133.

Place of Birth: Le Mans.

The date and place are given by Keefe (ODNB) and Baldwin.

Date of Death: 6 July 1189.

Place of Death: Chinon.

The date and place are given by Keefe (ODNB) and Baldwin.

Place of Burial: the abbey of Fontevrault.

Relationships

Father: Geoffrey V d'Anjou (1113 - 1151).

This relationship is given by Keefe (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1103), and by Baldwin.

Mother: the Empress Matilda (1102 - 1167).

This relationship is given by Keefe (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1103), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Eleanor of Aquitaine (about 1124 - 1204). Married 18 May 1152.

This relationship is given by Keefe (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1097), and by Baldwin.

Children (by Eleanor):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Baldwin.)

William (17 August 1153 - 1156).

Henry (28 February 1155 - 11 June 1183) married Marguerite de France. Henry was joint-king of England.

Matilda (1156 - 13 July 1189) married Heinrich der Löwe, duke of Saxony.

Richard I (8 September 1157 - 6 April 1199) married Berengaria of Navarre 12 May 1191. Richard was king of England 1189 - 1199.

Geoffrey (23 September 1158 - 19 August 1186) married Constance, heiress of Brittany.

Eleanor (born 1161 or 1162) married Alphonso VIII, king of Castille.

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Joan (October 1165 - September 1199) married (1) William, king of Sicily, 13 February 1177; married (2) Raymond VI, count of Toulouse in 1196.

John (1166 or 1167 - 19 October 1216) married (1) Isabella of Gloucester in 1189, divorced 1199; married (2) Isabella of Angoulême in 1200. John was king of England 1199-1216.

Children (by Ykenai/Hykenai):

Geoffrey (died 1212), bishop of Lincoln.

Children (by Ida, wife of Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk):

William “Longespee” (born about 1170 - died 1226) married Ela, heiress of Salisbury.

Children (by the wife of Ralph Bloet):

Morgan (died about 1216 or 1217), provost of Beverley, bishop-elect of Durham.

Children (by an unknown mistress):

Matilda, abbess of Barking, Essex.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Henry II of England” in The Henry Project.

Critchley, J. "Heinrich II." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Keefe, Thomas K. “Henry II (1133-1189)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Nichols, John. A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal: from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh, exclusive, with explanatory notes and a glossary. (London: J. Nichols, 1780) [Pages 7 to 10 give Henry’s will.]