NORMAN & PLANTAGENET

Supplemental Information to "Windows Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith & Associated Families, Vol 1" © 1996, Judy Parsons  Smith , p. 269.

Henry II, King of England

Henry II, King of England , son of Geoffrey the Plantagenet  & Matilda , b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, France; d. 16 Jul 1189, Chinon, England; bur. At Fontevrault; m. (as her 2nd husband) 18 May 1152, to Eleanor Duchess of Aquitaine , daughter of William VIII of Poitou  & Maud of Toulouse , b. 1123; d. 3 or 31 Mar or 1 Apr 1204, Fontevrault; m 1st to Louis VII, King of France , divorced 21 Mar 1152.  From ca. 1167 on Henry had a mistress, Rosamund Clifford , daughter of Walter de Clifford, Knight . 

Henry II , had a number of illegitimate children by a number of various affairs:

1.       William Longsword , Earl of Salisbury  
2.       Geoffrey Plantagenet , son of Henry II, King of England  and Ykenai , a common whore.  Geoffrey was made the Archbishop of York, ca. 1189.  Shortly afterwards he was sent into exile by Richard, Coeur de Lion .  
3.       William Longespee [i]  

[i] "Windows Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith & Associated Families, Vol 1" © 1996, Judy Parsons  Smith , See Longspee section.