Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

Her father had commanded her to marry a 15 year-old boy, Geoffrey, the eldest son of the Count of Anjou. King Henry ... planta genista…“Plantagenet”. No one knows for certain why Geoffrey ...