94555136. Comte Geoffrey Plantagenet & 94555137. Empress Matilda fitz Roy
8/5/1100, King Henry 1st crowed King of England
after the death of his older brother King William Rufus.
3/1102, Matilda born in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshsire,
England, d/o 189110274. King Henry I Beauclerc & 189110275. Maud of
Scotland.
1108, King Henry V of Germany sought Matilda’s marriage.
[––Matilda & Henry V––]
1109, Matilda betrothed to King Henry V of Germany.
2/1110, Matilda sent to Henry V’s court with 10,000 silver
marks.
7/25/1110, at Mainz, the Archbishop of Cologne crowned
Matilda as Queen of Germany. Matilda was taken to Trier for her education, and
put in the care of Archbishop Bruno. [Matilda later recalled being beaten
regularly by a terrifying aunt.]
4/13/1111, Henry V crowned Holy Roman Emperor [after
abducting Pope Paschal and 16 cardinals in Rome]. The Holy Roman Empire
consisted of Germany, northern Italy, Burgundy, Austria, and Bohemia.
8/24/1113, Geoffrey born in Anjou, France, s/o 189110272. Fulk V of Anjou & 189110273.
Erembourg of Maine. [As a child Geoffrey was well educated as he is known
to have been an avid reader. He even learned how to take a certain castle while
reading ‘De Re Militari’ of Vegetius Renatus. (S) Henry II, Warren, 1973, P38.]
1/7/1114 at Mainz, Matilda, age 12, married Emperor Henry V.
2/1116, Leaving from Augsburg, Empress Matilda accompanied
the Emperor on his invasion of northern Italy.
4/1117, Emperor Henry captured Rome, the Pope having fled
the city. At St. Peters, Archbishop Bourdin crowned Matilda Queen of the
Romans. [Although not official, she would be known as Mathilda Imperatrix.]
5/1/1118, Matilda’s mother died.
1118, Matilda, age 16, left in Italy as regent with an army
while Henry V returned to Germany. Matilda held a court at Castrocaro.
1119, Matilda returned to Germany.
11/25/1120, Matilda’s brother William, heir to the throne,
died at sea; along with many other nobles when the White Ship sank. Stephen,
count of Mortain [future King Stephen (189110430)], was supposed to be on the
ship, but got off before it left because he was feeling ill.
5/23/1125, Emperor Henry V, age 38, died. Matilda was
intrusted with the imperial insignia.
[––Matilda––]
9/1126, Matilda was recalled to England by her father.
Matilda took with her the imperial crown jewels, and the Holy Lance, supposedly
used to pierce the side of Christ. [800 years later Adolf Hitler, standing next
to the lance in Vienna, had a vision of his future.] The Archbishop of Mainz
persuaded Matilda to return many of the items, including the lance, but she
kept a crown of gold and a crown of silver.
12/25/1126, King Henry presented Matilda at his Christmas
court.
1/1/1127, Widow Matilda accepted by her father’s barons as
the heir to the crown. Matilda’s uncle, King David of Scotland, and her cousin,
Stephen, count of Mortain, were the 1st two to do homage.
[––Geoffrey & Matilda––]
5/22/1128 in Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou, Geoffrey “the Fair”,
age 15, married Matilda, age 25, forced into the marriage by her father.
[Geoffrey’s sister had married Matilda’s deceased brother.]
6/1128, at Rouen, King Henry knighted Geoffrey. Matilda and
Geoffrey then traveled to Angers.
7/28/1128, William Clito, s/o King Henry’s eldest brother
Robert, died; leaving Matilda best succession claim to England and Normandy.
1129, Matilda was living separated from Geoffrey in Rouen,
Normandy.
9/8/1130, King Henry called a great assembly at Northampton.
He had his daughter Matilda with him. (S) American Intellectual Tradition, V1,
Huntingdon, 1996, P487. [It was decided that Matilda should return to her
husband.]
1131, Geoffrey’s brother Elias, count of Maine, rebelled
against him. Geoffrey captured Elias and imprisoned him in Tours. [He died soon
after being released from a disease contracted in prison.]
9/8/1131 at Northampton, King Henry again had his barons
swear allegiance to Matilda. Afterwards, Matilda returned to Geoffrey in Anjou,
who had sworn allegiance completely to Matilda.
1133, King Henry again had his barons swear allegiance to
Matilda.
1135, Geoffrey launched an invasion [unsuccessful] of
Normandy against the lands of Roscelin de Beaumont, married to Matilda’s
half-sister Constance.
12/1/1135, King Henry I died in Rouen, Normandy after
over-eating lampreys. Geoffrey claimed the crown in right of his wife [but
Matilda and Geoffrey were unpopular.]
12/1135, Robert de Sable revolted against Geoffrey
Plantagenet, count of Maine; was captured and imprisoned. (S) Falaise Roll,
Crispin, 1994, P128.
12/22/1135, in a coup Matilda’s 1st cousin
Stephen de Blois became King, violating his oath to Matilda and throwing the
country into civil war.
9/1136, Waleran de Beaumont repelled an invasion in Normandy
by Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou. [Geoffrey ended the campaign when he received
a foot wound.]
1137, Geoffrey again invaded Normandy with 400 knights,
causing widespread damage. (S) King Stephen, King, 2010, P73.
6/1138, Matilda’s half-brother
Robert, earl of Gloucester, renounced his allegiance to King Stephen.
1139, Richard de Lucy, Governor of Falaise, Normandy,
defended it against attacks by Geoffrey Plantagenet. (S) Account of a Tour of
Normandy, Turner, 1820, P272.
9/30/1139, Empress Matilda landing at Arundel in Sussex [her
step-mother’s castle], invaded England, while Geoffrey continued to pressure on
Normandy [a traditional enemy of Anjou.] King Stephen immediately proceeded to
Arundel castle. [Matilda’s brother Robert had secretly
advanced to Bristol to set up her court there.] Not wanting to be perceived
as attacking Matilda and her stepmother, King Stephen arranged for her to be
escourted to her brother at Bristol.
12/1139, Ranulph, earl of Chester,
rose in support of Matilda and captured Lincoln castle.
2/2/1141 at Lincoln, King Stephen was captured by her
half-brother Robert and brought to Matilda.
3/2/1141, Matilda met with Bishop Henry, the king’s brother,
and the papal legate in England, near Winchester. Matilda promised to consult
him on important legal matters, and Henry gave his allegiance to her.
4/7/1141 at Winchester, Empress Matilda acknowledged as
“Lady of England and Normandy” by Bishop Henry.
6/24/1141, Matilda’s forces expelled from London by the
citizens and an army of Queen Matilda, wife of King Stephen. Empress Matilda
fled to her castle at Oxford.
9/1141, From Oxford, Empress Matilda marched an army on
Winchester, to secure the treasury. Bishop Henry had left, but he left a
garrison to defend aginst the forces commanded by Robert of Gloucester, Milo of
Gloucester, and Brien fitz Count. What they did not know was that William of
Ypres’ Flemish forces were surrounding London. Mathilde marched the Flemish
forces from her lands in Kent.
11/1/1141, Matilda exchanged King Stephen for Robert.
12/25/1141, Stephen again crowned King. [The civil war would
continue for 12 more years.]
8/1142, King Stephen captured Wareham, Dorset, the port
where Earl Robert had left from to go to Normandy. Stephen then marched on
Empress Matilda at Oxford.
9/1142, Stephen beseiged Matilda at Oxford castle. During
the siege Earl Robert returned and recaptured Wareham.
12/1142, Empress Matilda escaped Oxford castle at night with
an escort of 3 knights, and took refuge at Brien fitz Count’s castle of
Wallingford. Matilda then established her base at the castle of Devizes in
Wiltshire.
1144, [Early in the year] Geoffrey completed subjugation
Normandy by taking the city of Rouen.
6-7/1144, Geoffrey ceded Gisors to King Louis VII in order
to receive the title Duke of Normandy.
1144, [End of the year] Geoffrey controlled every castle in
Normandy.
1145, King Stephen defeated Matilda’s forces at the battle
of Faringdon.
1145, Geoffrey finally conquered Normandy with the fall of
Rouen and Arques, and the defeat of Robert de Beaumont, King Stephen’s
lieutenant in Normandy. Geoffrey provided a civil charter to Rouen.
4–6/1147, Geoffrey with a great assembly of French nobility
in Paris meeting with the Pope and King Louis VII.
6/1147, Geoffrey joined Louis VII on a crusade.
10/31/1147, Matilda’s half-brother and chief supporter
Robert, Earl of Gloucester died.
12/25/1147, On Christmas day on the coast of modern-day
Turkey, encamped by a river, a tremendous storm washed away much of the
supplies of the French crusaders. They decided to take a route over the
mountains to Antioch.
1/4/1148, The crusaders fought in a battle at Laodicea
against the Turks.
1/7/1148, The crusaders in a night battle in the area of
Mount Cadmus, where Turks ambush the main train of infantry and non-combatants well
behind the main force.
1/20/1148, After additional battles, the crusaders reached
Atalya. There was not enough money for ships for everyone, and 7000 infantry
were left in Satalia, Greece.
3/19/1148, The crusaders reached Antioch.
6/24/1148 at Acre, at a High Court of Jerusalem, the Council
decided that the best move would be to retake Damascus.
6/1148, Matilda returned to Normandy. [Matilda would never
return to England.] Matilda settled at Rouen.
By 4/1149, Geoffrey with the French and other crusaders
failed to retake Damascus. Most of the crusaders returned at this time.
1149, Geoffrey arrived back in France.
1150, Geoffrey ceded Normandy to his son Henry.
8/1151, Count Geoffrey Plantangenet of Anjou and his 18 year
old son Henry arrived in Paris to pay homage to their King returning from the
crusades, to get formal approval of Henry as Duke of Aquitane, and to accuse a
favorite of the King of “depredations” against him. Some arrangement was made
because all charges against the King’s favorite were dropped.
9/7/1151, Geoffrey, age 38, died of a fever; buried in St
Julian’s church, Le Mans.
[––Matilda––]
11/6/1153, after King Stephen’s only heir died; the Treaty
of Wallingford named Matilda’s son as heir to Stephen.
10/25/1154, King Stephen died.
12/19/1154, Matilda’s son Henry crowned King Henry II of
England.
9/29/1155, At Great Council at Winchester, where King Henry
proposed to conquer Ireland and give it to his brother William. Empress Matilda
was present and opposed the plan.
2/2/1156 at Rouen, France, My Lady the Empress [Matilda]
attested a royal charter of King Henry; and presided over discussions with her
son Geoffrey who was in rebellion.
2/1157 at Rouen, Empress Matilda granted a charter in favour
of Silly abbey.
1/1160 in France, Empress Matilda, in declining health,
makes many grants which are attested by her son the King.
1162, Matilda opposed King Henry’s appointment of Thomas
Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury.
12/1164, Empress Matilda is mentioned in a letter of Thomas,
archbishop of Canterbury.
4/15/1165, at Rouen, Empress Matilda refuses to see
ambassadors of the Emperor Frederick [who wanted to negotiate marriages of King
Henry’s daughters – King Henry accepted the ambassadors.]
8/22/1165, In a letter Empress Matilda is urged by Pope
Alexander to persevere in trying to get archbishop Thomas Becket restored to
his position in Canterbury. [Thomas had fled England in a dispute with King
Henry.]
9/1165, Empress Matilda sent her son King Henry a carriage
of fruit from Normandy.
11/1165 at Westminster, King Henry granted a charter to Sr.
Catherine’s priory near Lincoln, ‘pro anima Matildae Imperatricis matris meae.’
8/1166, Empress Matilda sent the bishop of Man to her son
King Henry who was in Normandy.
11/1166, King Henry arrested a boy was carrying falsified
papers from the pope. Empress Matilda demanded the release of the boy, which
King Henry refused.
8/1167, Empress Matilda
domiciled at Rouen, was visited by her son King Henry. Together they
granted a charter to the abbey of Valasia at Cherbourg.
9/10/1167, Matilda died in Rouen,
Normandy; buried in Frontevault abbey.
(S) Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II, Eyton,
1878. (S) She-Wolves, Castor, 2011.
Family notes:
·
The House of Plantagenet lasted 331 years [until
1485], supplying 14 English Kings.
·
Kings Henry II, Richard I, and John are also
known as “Angevins” because they also held the title Count of Anjou. Kings
Edward I, II, III are also known as “House of Lancaster”.
Child of Geoffrey and Maud:
i. Henry II (47277568), born 3/5/1133 in Le Mans, France.
ii. Geoffrey Plantagenet, born 6/1134 in Rouen, Normandy.
4/1152, Geoffrey attempted to capture his brother Henry’s
future queen Eleanor (divorced from King Louis) near Blois.
1155, Geoffrey aligned himself with King Louis of France,
claiming his right to Anjou.
2/1156, King Henry met Geoffrey at Rouen but could not
arrange a peace agreement.
1156, Geoffrey revolted against his brother Henry, claiming
their father wanted him to have Anjou.
7/1156, Geoffrey, under attack by King Henry, capitulated
for a yearly annuity.
1158, Geoffrey died.
iii. William Plantagenet, born 7/22/1136 in Argentan,
Normandy.
1164, William died in Rouen with his mother present.
Children of Geoffrey and ?:
i. Hamelin Plantagenet (94559120), born ~1140 in France.
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