The Plantagenets 1154-1495 Henry II to Richard III

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In 1328 Philippa of Hainaut was escorted to York.     
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M625260

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In 1376 King Edward III signed letters patent on the order of succession to the crown, citing in second position John of Gaunt, but ignoring Philippa, the daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence.

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Illustration of Geoffroy Plantagenet   
He was the father of King Henry II of England.   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M514055

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Illustration of Geoffroy Plantagenet   
He was the father of King Henry II of England.   
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Yes, he was around 19 when his first child Henry was born and his wife the Empress Mathilda was 30. They'd married when Geoffrey was 14 and Mathilda was 26, in an (obviously) arranged marriage I'm amazed she agreed to.

Geoffrey was reputedly a cherry but very firm individual and his wife was certainly feisty. She left him once or twice, but although the marriage wasn't very happy they had similar goals and stayed married until Geoffrey's death. By the time Mathilda's father died a second son Geoffrey was born so the lineage appeared secure. A third son William was born in 1136, though both he and his brother Geoffrey died unmarried in their twenties. Henry II of course became the first Plantagenet King of England.

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Mary of Woodstock (1278-1332) was the daughter of King Edward I of England.   
She was a nun at Amesbury Priory.

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King Henry III of England greeting his Queen, Eleanor of Provence
  http://www.alamy.com/king-henry-iii-of-england-greeting-queen-eleanor-image334443281.html

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King Richard I of England pardoning his brother Prince John.   
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-king-richard-pardoning-prince-john-147833974.html

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The future King Edward II was presented to the Welsh chirftans. 
 http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/A005065

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In 1361 the marriage of Edward the Black Prince to Joan of Kent was set to afford Prince Edward the first Plantagenet king/prince to be married to a divorced mother since Henry II had wed Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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On January 6, 1367 Richard of Bordeaux was born. His baptism
  was attended by what the Canterbury chronicler William Thorne described as three magi. The three kings at court were King 
 Pedro of Castile, King James IV of Majorca, and King Richard
  of Armenia.

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Queen Margaret of Anjou was taken prisoner after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M221727

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The coronation of Anne of Bohemia as Queen Consort occurred on January 22, 1382.   
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M339849