Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

Geoffrey Plantagenet
Enamel effigy from Geoffrey's tomb at Le Mans. His decorated shield suggests early origins of the three lions of the Royal Arms of England.
Count of Anjou
Reign	1129 – 7 September 1151
Predecessor	Fulk the Younger
Successor	Henry II
Duke of Normandy
Reign	1144–1150
Predecessor	Stephen
Successor	Henry II
Consort of the English monarch (disputed)
Tenure	8 April 1141 – 1148
Born	24 August 1113
Died	7 September 1151(1151-09-07) (aged 38) Château-du-Loir, France
Burial	Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans
Spouse	Matilda of England ​ (m. 1128)​
Issue Detail	Henry II, King of England Geoffrey, Count of Nantes William, Viscount of Dieppe Illegitimate: Hamelin, Earl of Surrey Emma of Anjou Mary, Abbess of Shaftesbury
House	Ingelger (by birth) Plantagenet (founder)
Father	Fulk, King of Jerusalem
Mother	Eremburga, Countess of Maine

Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Handsome, the Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144.

Geoffrey's marriage to Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and Duke of Normandy, led through their son, Henry II, to the 300-year long reign of the Plantagenet dynasty in England. Although it was never his family name or last name, "Plantagenet" was taken for the dynasty from Geoffrey's epithet, long after his death. Geoffrey was 'of Anjou', his ancestral domain of Anjou in north central France gives rise to the name Angevin, and what modern historians name as the Angevin Empire in the 12th century.