Henry II King ENGLAND, COUNT OF ANJOU PLANTAGENET

Notes:

                   There is a second death date on some records, needs to be checked out
26 jun 1202.
         When Eleanor married the future Henry II of England in 1152 she was the 29
yewar old former wife of the King of France, a veteran of the second crusade
and the owner of a vast French fief richer than England itself.  Henry was 18
and struggling to win the English throne.
         With Henry's cornonation ther joint land extended from England to the
Pyrenees and almost to the Mediterranean.
         Elenor bore Henry five sons and three daughters and tolerated his
infidelities as long as he observed the age old rule of descretion.
         Buit in 1166, about the time Eleanor's youngest son was born Henry fell in
love with the beautiful young Rosamond Clifford and created an open scandal.
         "He who had been a secret adulterer, now flaunted his paramour for all the
world to see," wrote contemporary historian Giraldus Cambrensis.
         His queen took herself to France and supported her sons' unsuccessful
refolt against their father in 1173.
         Henry captured Eleanor and had her confined in England for 16 years,
allowing her our occasionally to meet the grandchildren.
         Shw was freed when he died in 1189 and became regent at age 68 in place of
the new King Richard (the Lion-Hearted), her favorite son.