Martyn Family History

Scott H. Martyn
Glen Ellyn, IL  60137
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Geoffrey V 'le Bel' PLANTAGENET
(1113-1151)
Matilda OF ENGLAND The Empress Maude
(1102-1167)
Guillaume X "le Toulousain" Duc de Aquitaine et comte de Poitiers
(1099-1137)
Aénor "Eleanore" DE CHÂTELLERAULT Duchesse d’Aquitaine
(Abt 1103-1130)
Henry II PLANTAGENET King of England
(1133-1189)
Eleanor OF AQUITAINE Queen Consort of England
(1122-1204)
King Henry PLANTAGENET of England
(1155-1183)

 

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King Henry PLANTAGENET of England 1037

  • Born: 28 February 1155, , London, City of London, England 1037
  • Died: 11 June 1183, Martel, Lot, Occitanie, France at age 28 1037
  • Buried: 11 June 1183, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France 1037

   Cause of his death was Dysentery.

   FamilySearch ID: 9Z8G-C1P

  Death Notes:

Henry the Young King died, aged 28, in the summer of 1183, during the course of a campaign in Limousin against his father and his brother Richard. He had just finished pillaging local monasteries to raise money to pay his mercenaries. He contracted dysentery at the beginning of June. Weakening fast, he was taken to Martel in Quercy. It was clear to his household that he was dying on 7 June, when he was confessed and received the last rites.

Geoffroy de Vigeois mentions that in 1183, Martel welcomed Henry the Younger, co-king of England and elder brother of Richard the Lionheart, who died in the house of Étienne Faure (Fabri in Languedoc), returning from Rocamadour.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title of Nobility: King of England,, in , , , England.