BORN Le Mans, Anjou 5 March 1133 to Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou.

MARRIED Eleanor of Aquitaine, Bordeaux May 1152. They had 8 children, including Kings Richard I and John.

ACCEDED/CROWNED 19 December 1154, Westminster Abbey, aged 21.

Henry II became the first Plantagenet king when he displaced his second cousin Stephen, who had seized the English throne on the death of Henry I in 1135.

DIED July 1189 Chinon, Touraine, aged 56. BURIED Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou.

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