Geoffrey V "le Bel" Plantagenêt Comté d'Anjou et duc de Normandie
- Born: 24 Aug 1113, Anjou 160,529,833
- Marriage (1): Queen Matilda "the Empress" Princess of England on 24 May 1127 in Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Anjou 160,529
- Unmarried (2): Unknown
- Died: 7 Sep 1151, Château-du-Loir at age 38 160,833
- Buried: 1157, Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Anjou 833
 Another name for Geoffrey was Geoffrey V "the Fair." Count of Anjou.
Noted events in his life were:
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Geoffrey V Plantagenet, born 24 Aug 1118, died 7 Sep 1151, count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, married 3 Apr 1127 Matilda, daughter of Henry I, Beauclcrc, King of England and Matilda of Scotland. Geoffrey V was the son of Fulk Vand his wife, Melisende de Rethel.
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Geoffrey was surnamed Plantagenêt, which is the name of a flower he swore in his hat. His father was Fulk V, comté de Anjou, and his mother was Aremburga, daughter of Hélias I, comté de Maine. Geoffrey succeeded his father as the count of Anjou in 1129, and on 19 Jan 1144, he was proclaimed Duke of Normany after he conquered the duchy. He married, as her second husband, Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, King of England, and Matilda of Scotland. Geoffrey died 7 Sep 1151, at Château de Loire, and was buried in the La Mans Cathedral in Anjou.
• Web Reference: The House of Plantagenet - The Counts of Anjou;.
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• Web Reference: Geoffrey Plantagenêt & from Wikipedia.
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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Geoffroy d'Anjou
The Chronicæ Sancti Albini records the birth "1113 IX Kal Sep" of "Gaufridus comes" [Chronicæ sancti Albini Andegavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, p. 32]. Geoffroy d'Anjou married the daughter of Henry I King of England and his wife Matilda of Scotland [Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. VI, Book XII, p. 391].
Geoffrey married Queen Matilda "the Empress" Princess of England, daughter of Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and Ætheling ingen Mail Coluim, on 24 May 1127 in Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Anjou 160.,529 (Queen Matilda "the Empress" Princess of England was born about Apr 1103 in Royal Palace, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England,160 died on 10 Sep 1167 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy 160,529 and was buried in Sep 1167 in Abbaye de Bec 1078.)
Geoffrey had a relationship with Adélaide de Angers.
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