30TH GENERATION

1039547632. King HENRY II was born on 5 Mar 1132/33. He Crowned on 19 Dec 1155. He died on 6 Jul 1189. was knighted by David King of Scotland, 1148, went to Anjou 1150, returned to England 1152; succeeded King Stephen and began his raign with singular prudence, subdued the Welsh 1157, again crowned at Lincoln 1158, and at Worcester 1159. To secure his dominions in Normandy he seized the earldom of Anjou, left to his brother Geoffrey by his father's will, allowing him in lieu of it an annual pension, but Geoffrey died of grief in Joly 1157. The great events of his reigh wre the Irish comquest, the wars with the Scots, Welsh, and French, the destruction of more than one thousand fedual castles in England ("Dens ofThieves," Henry called them), the contest with Thomas `a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who had excommunicated most of the English clergy 1169; he caused his son Henry to be made co-partner with him in the kingdom and corwned 15 July, 1170, and next year `a Becket was murdered in the Cathedral of Canterbury; for which act the King did penance and was whipped by the monks at Canterbury, but, enlaerging the Pope's authority in England, was pardoned 1172. He had war with his sons, till at last a peace was concluded 1174. His second son, Richard Cor Lionis, again rebelled and by the aid of the French King made his father submit to hard terms, for which the old King died of grief 7 July, 1189. Henry II m. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitainm, dau. of William V, the divorced wife of Louis VII, of France; by which marriage he acquired a claim over nearly half of France. By his concubine, the Fair Rosamund, dau. of Walter, Lord Clifford, he had two sons: Geoffrey, Archibeshop of York, and William, surnamed Longoespee, who by his wife's right was created Earl of Salisbury and Somerset 1197,
King of England, 25 Oct. 1154-1189, called Curt Mantel, (Short-Mantle). (Weis 1-25). He was married to Queen ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE on 18 May 1153.

1039547633. Queen ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE was born in 1123. She died "31 Mar. of Apr. 1204".⁽⁷¹¹³⁾ (and Poitou) , m. (1) LOUIS VII, (102-25) King of France, (CP V 736; SP I 1-2;CCN 494).
(Brandenburg; Winkhaus). Children were:

2936856 i. King JOHN LACKLAND.
5873899 ii. ELEANOR OF ENGLAND.