Alice d' Eu, Countesss of Eu

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title(s): say 1230

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Title(s):
She was also the Lady of Hastings.

Alice married Raoul I de Lusignan, Count d'Eu about 1191. Raoul (son of Hugh VIII "le Brun" de Lusignan, Sire de Lusignan and Bourgogne and [no first name] de Rancon, Dame de Fonenay) died on 1 May 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maud de Lusignan or d'Eu was born about 1208 in La Marche, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; died on 12 Aug 1241.

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• Title(s): say 1160

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Title(s):
He was also the Lord of Hastings.

Henry married Maud de Warenne in 1179 in England. Maud (daughter of Hamelin Plantagenet, Earl of Surrey and Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey) was born in 1163 in Surrey, England; died about 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Miscellaneous: say 1150

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Name:
He was the Count of Eu and the Lord of Hastings.

Miscellaneous:
He held 56 Knight's fees.

John married Alice d'Aubigny. Alice (daughter of William "Strong Hand" de Albini, Earl of Arundel and Adeliza of Louvain) died on 11 Sep 1188. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: 1164; In 1164, he was present at the council of Northampton, and joined in the denunciation of Archbishop Thomas. He supported King Henry II in 1173, against the king's sons. In 1176, he was one of the escorts of Joan, daughter of King Henry II, to her marriage to the King of Sicily. Inn 1189, he attended the coronation of King Richard I, and later supported the kings chancellor against the intrigues of Prince John against the King. Then he was one of the treasurers of he ransom for King Richard. At King Richard I's second coronation, Earl Hamelin was carried one of the three swords. Then in 1199, he attended the coronation of King John.

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History:
He was the 5th Earl of Surrey.

Hamelin married Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey in Apr 1164 in England. Isabel (daughter of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey and Ela de Talvas) was born in 1137 in Surrey, England; died on 12 Jul 1203; was buried in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
She was the only daughter and sole heir of her father.

Henri married Margaret de Champagne. Margaret (daughter of William of Champagne and Agnes de Sully) died on 15 Dec 1145. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1139
• Military: 1173

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Military:
He supported the Emperess Maud, against King Stephen, receiving her and her brother, Robert, Earl of Gloucester at the port of Arundel in August 1139.

Military:
He commanded the king's army in Normandy where he succeeded in having the King of France abandon Verneuil after a long siege.

William married Adeliza of Louvain in 1138. Adeliza (daughter of Godfrey I of Brabant "the Beareded", Duke of Brabant and Lower Lorraine and Ida of Namur and Chiny) was born about 1103; died on 23 Apr 1151 in Affligem, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Miscellaneous: 1135; After the death of Henry I in 1135, Geoffrey laid claim to Normandy through his wife Mathilda. Meanwhile, Mathilda attempted the conquest of England from her cousin King Stephen who had gained the crown. Geoffrey did not accompany her, being still engaged in the conquest of Normandy, which he completed in 1144.
• Title(s): 1144; In 1144 he became the Duke of Normandy.
• Military: 1147; He undertook a crusade with King Louis VII of France. in 1147 In 1150, Geoffrey and Matilda ceded Normandy to their son Henry (later King Henry II of England), who founded the English Angevin dynasty.

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Birth:
Geoffrey "le Bel", meaning "the Handsome" was the first to use the Plantagenet name. One story relates that his father, Fulk the Younger atoned for some evil deed by being scourged with broom twigs or planta genista before the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Another story relates that Geoffrey wore a sprig of broom or planta genista in his hat. Regardless, it is generally agreed upon that the family name of "Plantagenet" has its origins with the planta genista or broom plant.

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Geoffrey married a concubine in No. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: birth to death

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History:
He was the 3rd Earl of Surrey.

William married Ela de Talvas. Ela (daughter of William I Talvas, Comte de Ponthieu, Alecon, and Montreuil and Alice of Burgundy) was born about 1124 in d'Alencon, Normandy, France; died in 1178 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]