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Emme, Marie, and their brother Hamelin (who married the heiress to the earldom of Surrey) were all illegitimate children of Geoffrey, count of Anjou, and all were probably babies or small children when he died in 1151. We know nothing of Emme's mother other than that Ralph of Diceto calls her a "woman of Maine"; we do not even know if Hamelin ...
Biography. Daughter of Count Fulk IV of Anjou. In 1089 she married Guillaume (William) IX, Duke of Aquitaine, but he repudiated her shortly after. In 1093 she married Alain IV Duke of Brittany. She acted as regent of Brittany when Alain left to join the First Crusade in 1096. After her husband abdicated in 1112 she lived for a while in the ...
Geoffrey of Anjou's invasion of Normandy, 1142–43. During 1142 and 1143, Geoffrey secured all of Normandy west and south of the Seine, and, on 14 January 1144, he crossed the Seine and entered Rouen. He assumed the title of Duke of Normandy in the summer of 1144. In 1144, he founded an Augustine priory at Château-l'Hermitage in Anjou.
Emma (or Emme) of Anjou (c.1140–c.1214) was an illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and half-sister of King Henry II of England. She was married to Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, a Welsh prince.
When Emma d'Anjou was born on 19 May 1138, in Normandy, France, her father, Geoffrey Plantagenet V, was 24 and her mother, Adelaide D'Angers, was 26. She married David ap Owain Gwynedd in 1174, in Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in May 1203, in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France, at the age of 65.
1. Her marriage to Henry VI had an unusual requirement. Born in the French Duchy of Lorraine, Margaret of Anjou grew up in France before her marriage to Henry VI in 1445. The marriage was somewhat controversial, in that there was no dowry given to the English Crown for Margaret by the French. Instead it was agreed that Charles VII of France ...
Religion: Christian: Catholic Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Geoffrey of AnjouGeoffrey V (August 24, 1113 September 7, 1151), Count of Anjou and Maine, and later Duke of Normandy, called Le Bel ("The Fair") or "Geoffrey Plantagenet", was the father of King Henry II of England, and thus the forefather of the Plantagenet dynasty of English kings.
