Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameAdelade of Angers 
Spouses
Birth24 Aug 1113, Anjou, France
Death7 Sep 1151, Chateau, France
BurialSt. Julian’s Church, Le Mans, Anjou
OccupationCount Of Anjou, Maine And Touraine
FatherFoulques V "le Jeune" , Count of Anjou (1092-1143)
MotherErmengarde (Ermentrude) du Maine (~1096-1126)
ChildrenHamelin (~1129-1202)
Notes for Geoffrey IV "Le Bon" (Spouse 1)
Geoffrey IV [aka Geoffrey V?]
b. Aug. 24, 1113
d. Sept. 7, 1151, Le Mans, Maine [France]also called GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, byname GEOFFREY, THE FAIR, French GEOFFROI PLANTAGENET, OR GEOFFROI LE BEL, Count d’Anjou (1131-51), Maine, and Touraine and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England through his marriage, in June 1128, to Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. On Henry's death (1135), Geoffrey claimed the duchy of Normandy; he finally conquered it in 1144 and ruled there as duke until he gave it to his son Henry (later King Henry II of England) in 1150.
Geoffrey was popular with the Normans, but he had to suppress a rebellion of malcontent Angevin nobles. After a short war with Louis VII of France, Geoffrey signed a treaty (August 1151) by which he surrendered the whole of Norman Vexin (the border area between Normandy and Île-de-France) to Louis.
Geoffrey “the Fair”
Burke says the marriage was 3 Apr 1127. The name Plantagenet, according to Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in his helm. Duke of Normandy 1144-1150.
135Plantagenet: The name is derived from the Latin planta (“sprig”) and genista (“broom plant”), in reference to the sprig that Geoffrey always wore in his cap.
b. Aug. 24, 1113
d. Sept. 7, 1151, Le Mans, Maine [France]also called GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, byname GEOFFREY, THE FAIR, French GEOFFROI PLANTAGENET, OR GEOFFROI LE BEL, Count d’Anjou (1131-51), Maine, and Touraine and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England through his marriage, in June 1128, to Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. On Henry's death (1135), Geoffrey claimed the duchy of Normandy; he finally conquered it in 1144 and ruled there as duke until he gave it to his son Henry (later King Henry II of England) in 1150.
Geoffrey was popular with the Normans, but he had to suppress a rebellion of malcontent Angevin nobles. After a short war with Louis VII of France, Geoffrey signed a treaty (August 1151) by which he surrendered the whole of Norman Vexin (the border area between Normandy and Île-de-France) to Louis.
Geoffrey “the Fair”
Burke says the marriage was 3 Apr 1127. The name Plantagenet, according to Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in his helm. Duke of Normandy 1144-1150.
135Plantagenet: The name is derived from the Latin planta (“sprig”) and genista (“broom plant”), in reference to the sprig that Geoffrey always wore in his cap.