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Version: 2019-01-11
For Phil, Asher and Jake
CONTENTS
Henry FitzEmpress: King Henry II of England, eldest son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda of England.
Family
Henry I: Henry’s maternal grandfather; king of England and duke of Normandy.
Matilda: Henry’s mother; the widowed empress of Germany, married by her father to her second husband, Geoffrey count of Anjou.
Geoffrey of Anjou: Henry’s father; husband of the much older Matilda. From the age of fourteen,