CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Plantagenet - History of the Plantagenet kings and Queens</title><meta name="description" content="The House of Plantagenet had its origins in a cadet branch of the original counts of Anjou, the dynasty established by Fulk I of Anjou at the beginning of the tenth century. ." /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><meta name="theme-color" content="#960c17" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/bootstrap-grid.min.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/global.css" /></head><body><nav class="fixed-nav-bar" aria-label="fixed navigation bar"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><i class="nav-s nav-s-smr"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=&title=" aria-label="reddit" title="Submit to Reddit" onclick="window.open('http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><i class="nav-s nav-s-smt"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?" aria-label="twitter" title="Tweet" onclick="window.open('https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%20Check%20out%20this%20awesome%20website%20' + encodeURIComponent(document.title) + ':%20 ' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><i class="nav-s nav-s-smf"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=&t=" aria-label="facebook" onclick="window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL) + '&t=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><div id="menu" class="menu"><a class="burger show" href="#menu" aria-label="Show Link Menu"><i class="menu"> </i></a><a class="burger hide" href="#hidemenu" aria-label="Hide Menu"><i class="menu"> </i></a><ul class="menu-items"><li class="current"><a href="index.htm" aria-label="dynasties">DYNASTIES</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="celts_1.html" aria-label="The Celts">The Celts</a></li><li><a href="saxon_21.htm">Saxon</a></li><li><a href="vikings_6.html">Viking</a></li><li><a href="normans_5.htm">Norman</a></li><li><a href="plantagenet_18.htm">Plantagenet</a></li><li><a href="plantagenet_49.html">Lancaster</a></li><li><a href="plantagenet_48.html">York</a></li><li><a href="tudor_21.htm">Tudor</a></li><li><a href="stuart_15.htm">Stuart</a></li><li><a href="hanover_11.html">Hanover</a></li><li><a href="saxe_coburg_gotha_5.html">Saxe-Coburg-Gotha</a></li><li><a href="windsor_30.htm">Windsor</a></li><li><a href="genealogical_tables.htm">Genealogical Tables</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="gwynedd.html" aria-label="Princes of wales">PRINCES OF WALES</a></li><li><a href="tower_index.html" aria-label="Tower of London">TOWER OF LONDON</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="tower_london.htm">Middle Ages</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_2.htm">Tudor Era</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_3.htm">Stuart Era</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_6.html">Bloody Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_7.html">White Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_17.html">Chapel of St. John</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_8.html">Chapel of St. Peter</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_9.html">Medieval Palace</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_10.html">Beauchamp Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_12.html">Byward Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_11.html">Queen's House</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_13.html">Bowyer Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_14.html">Bell Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_15.html">Traitor's Gate</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_16.html">Salt Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_18.html">Devereux Tower</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_4.htm">Recent History</a></li><li><a href="tower_london_5.html">Theft of the Jewels</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="crown_jewels.htm" aria-label="Crown Jewels">CROWN JEWELS</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="crown_jewels.htm">The Regalia</a></li><li><a href="crown_jewels_2.htm">The Theft Of The Crown Jewels</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="royal_residences.html" aria-label="Royal Residences">ROYAL RESIDENCES</a></li><li><a href="battles.html" aria-label="Battles">HISTORIC BATTLES</a></li><li><a href="scottish_kings.htm" aria-label="Scottish Monarchs">SCOTTISH MONARCHS</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></nav><section class="title-bar"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><div class="page-title-container"><form action="/ssep/index.php" id="demo-2" method="post"><input type="search" aria-label="search" name="sr" placeholder="Search" /></form><h1>Plantagenet</h1></div></div></div></div></section><section class="content-bg"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-12 col-xl-9"><div class="well"><div class="dynasties"><div class="row"><div class="col"><h2>Plantagenet Kings and Queens</h2><p> The House of Plantagenet had its origins in a cadet branch of the original counts of Anjou, the dynasty established by Fulk I of Anjou at the beginning of the tenth century. The Plantagenet dynasty ruled England for over three hundred years, from 1154 -1485. They were a remarkable family, providing England with fourteen of its kings. </p><p> The surname Plantagenet, which was to become one of the most famous in England, seems to have derived from a nickname adopted by Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, the father of Henry II and refers to his habit of wearing a sprig of broom or planta genista in his helmet. </p><p> The dynasty produced such varied characters as the energetic Henry II, arguably one of England's greatest monarchs and his legendary son, Richard the Lionheart, who led the Third Crusade against Saladin into the Holy Land. The highly aesthetic Henry III and his son, the indomitable Edward I, who conquered Wales and became known as the Hammer of the Scots for his campaigns into that country, where he fought William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, the most famous of Scotland's sons, and Henry V, the conqueror of France, who bequeathed the diadems of both countries to his pious and ineffectual son, Henry VI. </p><p> The Plantagenets, described by Bacon as "a race much dipped in their own blood" finally destroyed themselves in the bloody dynastic struggle we know of as the <a href="battles.html#WOR">Wars of the Roses</a>. The later Plantagenets became divided into the Houses of Lancaster and York which descended through different sons of King Edward III. The Yorkist king Richard III was the last of his house, when he was killed in battle on Bosworth Field, to be displaced by the Tudors, it was the end of an era. The male line of the Plantagenets became extinct with the execution in 1499 of Edward, Earl of Warwick, the son of George, Duke of Clarence, in the reign of Henry VII, the first Tudor. </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-6"><h3>Monarch</h3></div><div class="col-6"><h3>Born and Reign</h3></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/henry_II.jpg" alt="Henry II" width="103" height="129" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet.htm">Henry II</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1133. Son of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou & Matilda of Normandy R. 1154-89</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/rcdi.jpg" alt="Henry II" width="102" height="167" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_2.htm">Richard I</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1157 Son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine. R. 1189-99</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/jn.jpg" alt="King John" width="109" height="155" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_3.htm">King John</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1167 Son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitainer. R. 1199-1216</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/hiii.jpg" alt="Henry II" width="108" height="143" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_4.htm">Henry III</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1207 Son of King John & Isabella of Angouleme R. 1216-72</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/edw_1.jpg" alt="Henry II" width="108" height="151" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_5.htm">Edward I</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1239 Son of Henry III &Eleanor of Provencer. 1272-1307</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/edwii.jpg" alt="Edward II" width="109" height="132" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_6.htm">Edward II</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1284 Son of Edward I & Eleanor of Castille R. 1307-27</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/edwiii.jpg" alt="Edward III" width="108" height="141" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_7.htm">Edward III</a></div><div class="col"><p>B 1312 Son of Edward II & Isabella of Francer. 1327-77</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/rdii.JPG" alt="Rickhard II" width="111" height="158" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_8.htm">Richard II</a></div><div class="col"><p> B. 1367 Son of <a href="black_prince.htm" style="display: contents">Edward, the Black Prince</a> & Joan of Kent R. 1377-99 </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/hiv.jpg" alt="Henry IV" width="108" height="111" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_9.htm">Henry IV</a></div><div class="col"><p> B. 1366 Son of <a href="plantagenet_34.html" style="display: contents">John of Gaunt</a> & Blanche of Lancaster R. 1399-1413 </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/hv.jpg" alt="Henry V" width="108" height="150" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_10.htm">Henry V</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1387 son of-Henry IV & Mary de Bohun R. 1413-22</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/hvi.jpg" alt="Henry VI" width="109" height="155" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_11.htm">Henry VI</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1421 Son of Henry V & Catherine of Valois R. 1422- 61 & 1470-71</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/eiv.jpg" alt="Edward IV" width="109" height="147" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_12.htm">Edward IV</a></div><div class="col"><p> B. 1442 Son of <a href="plantagenet_20.htm" style="display: contents">Richard Duke of York</a> & Cecily Neville R. 1461 -70 & 1471-83 </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/ev.jpg" alt="Edward V" width="106" height="136" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_13.htm">Edward V</a></div><div class="col"><p>B. 1470 Son of Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville R. 1483</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col"><img src="images/riii.jpg" alt="Rickhard III" width="109" height="155" /></div><div class="col"><a href="plantagenet_14.htm">Richard III</a><a href="plantagenet_15.htm">Richard III continued</a></div><div class="col"><p> B. 1452 Son of Richard Duke of York & Cecily Neville R. 1483-85 <a href="plantagenet_32.html" style="display: contents">Anne Neville</a></p></div></div><h3>Additional Information on the era</h3><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="counts_of_anjou.htm">Counts of Anjou</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_42.html">Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_100.html">Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_19.htm">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_33.html">Henry, the Young King</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_66.html">Thomas Becket</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_78.html">William Longespée</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_79.html">Geoffrey, Archbishop of York</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_80.html">Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="arthur_brittany.htm">Arthur, Duke of Britanny</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_99.html">Eleanor of Brittany</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_37.html">Berengaria of Navarre</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="third_crusade.htm">Third Crusade</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_101.html">Joanna, Queen of Sicily</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_31.html">Isabella of Angoulême</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_57.html">William Marshal</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="robin_hood.html">The Legend of Robin Hood</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_30.html">Eleanor of Provence</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_58.html">Simon de Montfort</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_76.html">Richard of Cornwall</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_68.html">Edmund Crouchback</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_74.html">Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_75.html">Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_29.html">Eleanor of Castile</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_38.html">Margaret of France</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_102.html">Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_27.html">Isabella of France</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_50.html">The Mortimer Family</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_89.html">Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="leeds_castle.html">Leeds Castle</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_35.html">Philippa of Hainault</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="black_prince.htm">Edward, the Black Prince</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_39.html">Joan, Fair Maid of Kent</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_81.html">Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_34.html">John of Gaunt'</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_82.html">Thomas of Woodstock</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="black_death.htm">The Black Death</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_61.html">Anne of Bohemia</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_62.html">Isabella of Valois</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="peasants_revolt.html">The Peasants Revolt</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="royal_orders.html">The Order of the Garter</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="windsor_castle.html">Windsor Castle</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="genealogical_tables.htm">Genealogical Tables</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="strongbow.html">Richard de Clare'Strongbow'</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_53.html">Henry of Almain</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="owain_glyndwr.html">Owain Glyndwr</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="plantagenet_77.html">The Holland family</a></div><div class="col-md"><a href="talbot.html">John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md"><a href="burial_sites.html">Burial Sites of the Tudors</a></div><div class="col-md"></div><div class="col-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="social"><ul id="sprite"><li id="sprite_s"><i class="sprite sprite-1"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=&t=" aria-label="facebook" onclick="window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL) + '&t=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><i class="sprite sprite-2"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?" aria-label="twitter" title="Tweet" onclick="window.open('https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%20Check%20out%20this%20awesome%20website%20' + encodeURIComponent(document.title) + ':%20 ' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><i class="sprite sprite-3"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=&title=&summary=&source=" aria-label="linkedin" title="Share on LinkedIn" onclick="window.open('http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i><i class="sprite sprite-4"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=&title=" aria-label="reddit" title="Submit to Reddit" onclick="window.open('http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=' + encodeURIComponent(document.URL) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title)); return false;" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"></a></i></li></ul></div><section class="right-menu"><div class="col-lg-12 col-xl-3"><div class="row"><div class="side-menu2"><div class="col-lg-12 col-sm-3"><div class="well"><h2>Popular Plantagenets</h2></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="side-menu"><div class="col-lg-12 col-sm-3"><div class="well"><a href="plantagenet_2.htm" aria-label="Richard I the Lionheart"><b>Richard I the Lionheart</b></a><picture><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="images/sidebar/plantagenet/ric.jpg" /><source media="(max-width: 1199px)" srcset="images/sidebar/small.png" /><img src="images/sidebar/small.png" alt="Richard I the Lionheart" /></picture></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="side-menu"><div class="col-lg-12 col-sm-3"><div class="well"><a href="plantagenet_5.htm" aria-label="Edward I"><b>Edward I</b></a><picture><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="images/sidebar/plantagenet/ed1.jpg" /><source media="(min-width: 1199px)" srcset="images/sidebar/small.png" /><img src="images/sidebar/small.png" alt="Edward I" /></picture></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="side-menu"><div class="col-lg-12 col-sm-3"><div class="well"><a href="plantagenet_14.htm" aria-label="Richard III"><b>Richard III</b></a><picture><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="images/sidebar/plantagenet/ric3.jpg" /><source media="(min-width: 1199px)" srcset="images/sidebar/small.png" /><img src="images/sidebar/small.png" alt="Richard III" /></picture></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="side-menu"><div class="col-lg-12 col-sm-3"><div class="well"><a href="plantagenet_6.htm" aria-label="Edward II"><b>Edward II</b></a><picture><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="images/sidebar/plantagenet/ed2.jpg" /><source media="(min-width: 1199px)" srcset="images/sidebar/small.png" /><img src="images/sidebar/small.png" alt="Edward II" /></picture></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></section><footer class="footer"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12 col-xl-9"><p><span>Copyright © 2004 - 2022 www.englishmonarchs.co.uk All rights reserved All rights reserved ®</span><a href="privacy.html" aria-label="privacy">Privacy Policy</a></p></div></div></div></footer><script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-89969642-1"></script><script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag("js", new Date()); gtag("config", "UA-89969642-1"); </script></body></html>