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GEOFFREY , surnamed See also:PLANTAGENET [Or PLANTEGENET] (1113-1151), See also:count of See also:Anjou, was the son of Count See also:Fulk the See also:Young and of Eremburge (or Arembourg of La See also:Fleche; he was See also:born on the 24th of See also:August 1113. He is also called " le See also:bel " or " the handsome," and received the surname of Plantagenet from the See also:habit which he is said to have had of wearing in his cap a sprig of See also:broom (See also:genet). In 1127 he was made a See also:knight, and on the 2nd of See also:June 1129 married See also:Matilda, daughter of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I. of See also:England, and widow of the See also:emperor Henry V. Some months afterwards he succeeded to his See also:father, who gave up the countship when he definitively went to the See also:kingdom of See also:Jerusalem. The years of his See also:government were spent in subduing the Angevin barons and in conquering See also:Normandy (see ANJou). In 1151, while returning from the See also:siege of See also:Montreuil-Bellay, he took See also:cold, in consequence of bathing in the Loir at See also:Chateau-du-Loir, and died on the 7th of See also:September. He was buried in the See also:cathedral of Le Mans. By his wife Matilda he had three sons: Henry Plantagenet, born at Le Mans on See also:Sunday, the 5th of See also:March 1133; Geoffrey, born at See also:Argentan on the 1st of June 1134; and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Long-See also:Sword, born on the 22nd of See also:July 1136.
See Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin See also:Kings (2 vols., See also:London, 1887), vol. i. chs. v.-viii.; C6lestin See also:Port, Dictionnaire historique, geographique et biographique de See also:Maine-et-See also:Loire (3 vols., See also:Paris-See also:Angers, 1874-1878), vol. ii. pp. , 254-256. A See also:history of Geoffrey le Bel has yet to be written; there is a See also:biography of him written in the 12th See also:century by See also:Jean, a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk of Marmoutier, Historia Gaufredi, See also:ducis Normannorum et comitis Andegavorum, published by Marchegay et See also:Salmon; " Chroniques See also:des comtes d'Anjou " (Societe de l'histoire de See also:France, Paris, 1856), pp. 229-310. (L.
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