Geoffrey V of Anjou

     Geoffrey V of Anjou was born on 24 August 1113 at Anjou, France.¹ He was the son of Fulk V of Anjou and (?) Ermengarde of Maine. Geoffrey V of Anjou married Matilda (Maud), Princess of England, daughter of Henry I Beauclerc and Edith Matilda of Scotland, on 22 May 1127 at Le Mans, Sarthe, France; While there was a great deal that occurred before this marriage, Matilda appears to have been unimpressed by the prospect of marrying Geoffrey of Anjou. She felt that marrying the son of a count diminished her imperial status, and she was probably also unhappy about marrying someone so much younger than she was; Matilda was 25 and Geoffrey was 13.

Geoffrey's marriagee to Matilda, dau of Henry I, and then through son, Henry II, led to the Plantagenet dynasty in England.

So much occurred here while they were married, but a reader needs to look elsewhere. A very powerful couple, whose history can not be told in a paragraph or two.^2,1,3 Geoffrey V of Anjou died on 7 September 1151 at Chateau, Eure-Et-Loir, France, at age 38.¹
     Burke says the marriage was 3 April 1127. The name Plantagenet, came from the fact that Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (planta-genistae) in his helm.