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William Fitzempress, also known as William of Anjou, was born in 1136, the third and youngest son of Count Geoffrey V of Anjou and his wife, Empress Matilda, the daughter of the late English King Henry I of England. He was born in the time known as The Anarchy, an 18-year civil war that disputed the succession of the English crown between his ...
William Fitzempress also known as William of Anjou, was born in 1136, the third and youngest son of Count Geoffrey V of Anjou and his wife, Empress Matilda, the daughter of the late English King Henry Beauclerc. He was born in the time known as The Anarchy, an 18-year civil war that disputed the succession of the English crown between his ...
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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. Mother. Empress Matilda. Geoffrey VI (1 June 1134 [1] – 27 July 1158) [2] [3] was Count of Nantes from 1156 to 1158. He was also known as Geoffrey of Anjou and Geoffrey FitzEmpress. He was the son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda. His brothers were Henry II of England and William FitzEmpress .
Hugh served William fitzEmpress, the brother of King Henry II of England from the mid 1150s. William gave Hugh the manor of Harrietsham in Kent. After William's death in 1164, Hugh passed into royal service, while also serving as seneschal to the new Earl of Surrey, Hamelin, the illegitimate half-brother of King Henry II.
The seal of William FitzEmpress, John’s uncle, clearly shows that as early as the 1150s members of the English royal house not only caparisoned their steeds, but also repeated their shield devices upon those caparisons. 35 Speed (or perhaps his engraver) could hardly have been aware of this fact, and so by making what was to his near contemporary a glaringly apparent mistake, he was in fact ...
William FitzEmpress (22 July 1136 – 30 January 1164) or William Longespee was the youngest of the three sons of Empress Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. His brothers were Henry II of England and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes.
