Martyn Family History

Scott H. Martyn
Glen Ellyn, IL  60137
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Geoffrey V "The Fair" PLANTAGENET Count of Anjou
(1113-1151)
Matilda OF ENGLAND Empress Maude
(1102-1167)
William X OF TOULOUSAIN Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers
(1099-1137)
Aénor "Eleanore" OF CHÂTELLERAULT Duchess of Aquitaine
(Abt 1103-1130)
Henry II PLANTAGENET King of England
(1133-1189)
Eleanor OF AQUITAINE Queen Consort of France and England
(1122-1204)
Henry "the Young King" PLANTAGENET King of England
(1155-1183)

 

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Henry "the Young King" PLANTAGENET King of England 1061

  • Born: 28 February 1155, London, City of London, Greater London, England 1061
  • Died: 11 June 1183, Martel, Lot, Occitanie, France at age 28 1061
  • Buried: 11 June 1183, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France 1061

   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.