Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Geoffrey V (1113–1151) was Duke of Normandy. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne as King Henry II (1154-1189) becoming the first Plantagenet King of England
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Geoffrey V (1113–1151) is sometimes called 'the Handsome' or 'the Fair' (le Bel). He was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine and Duke of Normandy. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne as King Henry II (1154-1189) and was the first of the Plantagenet dynasty to rule England. The name Plantagenet was taken from Geoffrey's epithet. The ancestral home of Anjou gave the name 'Angevin' for three kings of England (King Henry II and his sons Richard I and John) and what became known as the Angevin Empire in the 12th century.
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