Death of Geoffrey Plantagenet
September 7, 1151
The Count of Anjou who had conquered Normandy from his wife Matilda's rival died leaving his eighteen-year-old son Henry an empire-sized inheritance. Henry already held Normandy and Anjou; within a year he would marry Eleanor of Aquitaine; within three he would be king of England. Geoffrey's effigy in Le Mans shows the broom sprig on his hat that gave the Plantagenet dynasty its name.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.