PLANTAGENET, Duke Geoffrey II

1158 - 1186  (27 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey
  Prefix	Duke
  Suffix	II
  Birth	23 Sep 1158	London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
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  Death	19 Aug 1186	Paris, France
  Burial	Aft 19 Aug 1186	Notre Dame, Paris, Seine, France
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  Person ID	I28090	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	PLANTAGENET, King Henry II ,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, Franced. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France (Age 56 years)
  Mother	ENGLAND, Princess Eleanore ,   b. 1121, Gironde, Lot, Pyrenees, France Gironde, Lot, Pyrenees, Franced. 31 Mar 1204, Tarn-et-Garonne, Pyrenees, France (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1152	Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France   [1]
  Family ID	F15123	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BRETAGNE, Countess Constance ,   b. 1160, England Englandd. 5 Sep 1201 (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	Jul 1181
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Jul 1181-1182 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 19 May 1954, SLAKE.
  Family ID	F15328	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  (Descent from the English Crown) King John had illegitimate children over the entire course of his adult life. One of his older batard sons, Geoffrey, received a loan by the pledge of William Longespace, Earl of Salisbury, and Peter de Stokes in 1204. In 1205 he led an expedition into Poitou. SURNAME: Also shown as England BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Notre Dame De, Paris, Seine, France. Geoffrey and Constance had three children, one born after Geoffrey's death: Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1184–1241) Maud/Matilda of Brittany (1185 – before May 1189) Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–1203) Geoffrey died on 19 August 1186, at the age of twenty-seven, in Paris. There is also evidence that supports a death date of 21 August 1186. There are two alternative accounts of his death. The more common first version holds that he was trampled to death in a jousting tournament. At his funeral, a grief-stricken Philip was said to have attempted jumping into the coffin. Roger of Hoveden's chronicle is the source of this version; the detail of Philip's hysterical grief is from Gerald of Wales. In the second version, in the chronicle of the French Royal clerk Rigord, Geoffrey died of sudden acute chest pain, which reportedly struck immediately after his speech to Philip, boasting his intention to lay Normandy to waste. Possibly, this version was an invention of its chronicler; sudden illness being God's judgment of an ungrateful son plotting rebellion against his father, and for his irreligiosity. Alternatively, the tournament story may be an invention of Philip's to prevent Henry II's discovery of a plot; inventing a social reason, a tournament, for Geoffrey's being in Paris, Philip obscured their meeting's true purpose. Marie of Champagne, with whom Geoffrey had gotten on well, was present at the requiem for her half-brother and established a mass chantry for the repose of his soul. Geoffrey was buried in the choir of Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, but his tombstone was destroyed in the 18th century before the French revolution. His body was exhumed in 1797 and measured at five feet, six inches and a half (1.69 m).

  
  

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  [S112] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).