This family played a big part in my childhood days of the stories of Robin Hood, but until I started my search into my roots of my family, I did not know I was related to some of the people these stories were wrote about!
And I can't believe my family line runs from that Prince John fellow!
Yes I know Robin Hood is just fiction but please, tell me that Prince John wasn't all bad!
( Henry was the founder of the Angevin, or Plantagenet, line in England and one of the ablest and most remarkable of all the English Kings.)
+M.1152, Bordeaux, France.*Eleanor d'Aquitaine, Duchess of Poitou d'Auitanie. b.1122-1204
(P)William Guillaume & Eleonore de Chatellerault.
Children of Henry & Eleanor:
a. William "Count of Poiters" Plantagenet
b. Henry "the Young King" Plantagent
c.Matilda Plantagenet
d.Richard 1 "The Loinheart" Plantagenet, King of England in 1189.
e.Geoffrey II Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany.
f.Eleanor Plantagenet
g.Joan Plantagenet
h.*John "Lackland"Plantagenet, King of England in 1216. (My Line)
11.John"Lackland" Plantagenet, King of England.b.24.12.1166 in Kings ManorHouse, Oxford, England. d.19.10.1216 Newark Castle, Nottingham,Eng.
Bur.Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, England.
John became King on the death of his crusading brother, Richard I
'The Lion-Heart' in 1199. He was a harsh King with a bad temper. He was forced by
the Barons & Church, into signing the 'Magna Carta' to avert cival war in 1215 at
Runnymede.(Prince John's character plays,'The Bad Prince John' in Robin Hood stories).
+M.26.8.1200 Bordeaux, Gironde, France. to*Isabella De Taillefer b.26.8.1186 Angouleme, Charente, France. d.31.5.1246
in House, Fontevrault Abbey, Maine-Et-Loire, France.bur. in Fontevrault Abbey.
(P) Aymer De Taillefer 'Count of Angouleme' & Alex De Courtenay
12.Henry III Plantagenet King of England. b.1.10.1207 Winchester Castle, Hampshire, Eng. d.16.11.1272 at Westminster Palace, London, Eng.
Bur.20.11.1272 at Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, Eng.
(Henry III became King after his father died, at the age of 9 years, he rulled for fifty-six years.)
+M 14.1.1236 Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, Eng. * Eleanor Berenger b.Abt. 1217 Aix-En- Provence, Provence. d.24.6.1291 Amesbury, Wiltshire, Eng. bur.11.9.1291 Monastry, Amesbury, Wiltshire, Eng.
(P) Raymond V(IV) Berenger, Count of Provence. & Beatrice De Savoie
13.Edward I "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England. b.17.6.1239 at the Palace of Westminster,England.d.7.7.1307 at Burgh-on-Sands, Nothumberland.
Edward was Known as 'Longshanks' because he had such long arms and Legs and was very tall. Also known for, 'The Father of the Mother of Parliaments", 'The
English Justinian' and 'The Hammer of the Scots'.Edward was proned to bouts of Plantagenet anger.(He once threw his daughters coronet into the fire.) Yet he was devoted to his Queen Eleanor of Castile.
+M.18.10.1254 Burgos, Castile & Leon, Spain. *Eleanor De Castile Queen
b. 1244 of Burgos, Castile, Spain. d.28.11.1290 Harby, Nottingham.
(P) Ferdinand III(St. Ferdinand) Roi Castile, King of Castile & Leon.& Johanna Ponthieu de Dammartin
14.Elizabeth Plantagenet, Princess of England.(Daughter) b.7.8.1282 Rhuddlan Castle, Flinshire, Wales.d.5.5.1316 in Quendon, Essex, Eng.
+M.14.11.1302 at Westminster, London, Eng. *Humphrey VIII De Bohun
4th Earl of Hereford & Essex. b.1275of Pleshey Castle, Essex, Eng.
d.16.3.1322 Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, Eng. Bur.Friars Preachers Church, York, Yorkshire.
(P) Humphrey VII De Bohun & Maud De Fiennes
15.Margaret De Bohun Lady, b.3.4.1311 Caldecote, Northumberland, Eng.
d.16.12.1391 Exeter, Devonshire, Eng. bur. Cathedral, Exeter, Devon.
+M.11.8.1325* Hugh De Courtenay (Click on Courtenay for More of
this Line)
