Geoffrey Plantagenet (Earl of Maine and Anjou) Framed Print

Geoffrey Earl, or rather, according to the foreign style, Count of Maine and Anjou, was son of Fulk the preceding Earl, King of Jerusalem, by Eremburga, daughter of Helias Count of Mans. As the Earldom of Anjou was contiguous to Normandy he became an eligible husband for Matilda or Maud, the daughter of Henry the First, King of England, and widow of the Emperor Henry the Fourth. They were married at Mans, April 3, 1127. By the issue of this union the Saxon blood was restored in the succession of English monarchs, for Henry the Second, their only son, was great-grandson, by his mother’s side, to Margaret, the sister of Edgar Atheling.

Geoffrey Plantagenet died in 1150, and was buried before the Crucifix in the Church of St. Julien in Mans.