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vii. SUZANNE DE WARENNE 1137 , b. 1170 1138 ; m. KING OF ENGLAND (1199-16) JOHN I 'LACKLAND'
ENGLAND 1139,1140,1141,1142 ; b. December 24, 1167, Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England 1143 ; d.
October 19, 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England 1143 .
Notes for KING OF ENGLAND (1199-16) JOHN I 'LACKLAND' ENGLAND:
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Burial: Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England 1143
57. KING OF ENGLAND(1154-89) HENRY II 'CURTMANTLE' OF 12 ENGLAND (MATILDA (MAUD) 'THE EMPRESS' OF 12
GERMANY, HENRY I 'BEAUCLERC' OF 11 ENGLAND, WILLIAM I 'THE CONQUERER' OF 10 NORMANDY, ROBERT I 'THE
MAGNIFICENT' OF 9 , RICHARD II 'THE GOOD' OF 8 , RICHARD I 'THE FEARLESS' OF 7 , WILLIAM I 'LONGSWORD' OF 6 ,
POPPA OF NORMANDY 5 DE VALOIS, BERENGER 4 DE BAYEAUX, PEPIN II OF 3 PERONNE, CUNIGUNDA (CUNEGONDE) 2
DE LAON, WILLIAM OF 1 AUTUN) 1144,1145,1146,1147 was born March 05, 1132/33 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France 1148 , and
died July 06, 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France 1148 . He met (2) ISABELLA (IDA) PLANTAGENET 1149,1150 Bef.
1176 1151 , daughter of HAMELIN DE WARENNE and ISABEL DE WARENNE. She was born Bet. 1152 - 1154 in
Norfolk, Norfolk, England 1152,1153 .
Notes for KING OF ENGLAND(1154-89) HENRY II 'CURTMANTLE' OF ENGLAND:
Henry II.,
Henry II., King of England, first of the Plantagenet line, was the eldest son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, and his
wife, the ex-Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I., and was born at Mans, in March, 1133. He received his
education in England, under the care of his uncle Robert, Earl of Gloucester. On the death of his father, in 1151,
he succeeded to the earldom of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine, and in the following year, by his marriage with
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the divorced wife of Louis VII. of France, he became possessor of the duchy of Aquitaine
or Guienne. The same year he invaded England, but a treaty was concluded, in 1153, by which it was agreed that
he should succeed to the throne of England on the death of Stephen. This event took place in October, 1154, and
Henry was crowned without opposition at Westminster, in December. His first measures were directed to the
redress of the disorders and anarchy which had prevailed in the reign of Stephen. He seized and destroyed most of
the baronial castles; dismissed the foreign troops; renewed the charter granted by Henry I. ; and resumed most of
the lands which had been alienated from the crown by Stephen.
On the death of his brother Geoffrey he claimed and got possession of Nantes, and was thus master of the whole
western coast of France. His attempt on Toulouse, in 1159, involved him in a war with the King of France, which
was only terminated two years later. In 1162 Thomas a Becket was elected Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
great struggle between the civil and ecclesiastical powers began, which resulted in the Constitutions of Clarendon,
the exile and murder of Becket, war with France, the king's penance at Becket's tomb, and the repeal of the
Constitutions. In 1171 Henry invaded Ireland, and, under the authority of a bull of Pope Adrian IV., which had
been published in 1156, effected a conquest of that island.
The remaining years of his reign were embittered by the numerous revolts of his sons, instigated by their mother.
Eleanor, whose jealousy was excited by the king's affection for Fair Rosamond, attempted to follow her sons to
the court of France, but was seized and imprisoned during Henry's life. The King of Scotland, who supported the
rebellion of the young princes, was taken prisoner at Alnwick, in 1174, but was released after a few months, on
doing homage to Henry. A formal reconciliation with the princes took place, but was followed by a fresh revolt
and civil war. Prince Henry, who, as heir-apparent, had been crowned in 1170, died in France, in 1183. Geoffrey
was killed at a tournament, two years later; and John joined his brother Richard in a new rebellion against their
father, in which they were aided by Philip Augustus.
The old king was prostrated by sickness, and the revolt of his youngest son John was the last and fatal blow from
which he could not recover. He died at Chinon, July 6, 1189, and was buried at Foutevraud. Notwithstanding the
conflicting estimates of the character and measures of Henry II., viewed as the champion of state supremacy, it is
evident that he was a man of powerful intellect superior education, great energy, activity, and decisiveness, and
also of impetuous passions. Ruling almost despotically, he greatly diminished the power of the nobles, and thus
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