Henry 'the Young' King of ENGLAND & Margaret Of FRANCE

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Husband: Henry 'the Young' King of ENGLAND [I31064]

Born: 28 FEB 1155 in Bermondsey, London ¹
Married:
Died: 11 JUN 1183 in Castle of Martel, Lot ^{2 3}
Father: Henry II King of ENGLAND
Mother: Eleanor Of AQUITAINE
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Wife: Margaret Of FRANCE [I31087]

Born: 1158
Died: 18 SEP 1197 in St John of Acre
Father: Louis VII King of FRANCE
Mother: Constance of CASTILE
Spouses:

Children

01 (M): William of ENGLAND [I31911]
Born: 19 JUN 1177 in Premature
Died: 22 JUN 1177
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Additional Information

Margaret Of FRANCE:

Name: Margaret of FRANCE

Notes:

She was the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile. Her older half-sisters, Marie and Alix, were also older half-sisters of her future husband.

She was betrothed to Henry the Young King on 2 November 1160. Henry was the second of five sons born to King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was five years old at the time of this agreement while Margaret was three. Margaret's dowry was the vital and much disputed territory of Vexin

Footnotes

Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists [1427] (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999 Boston, MA).
Weis, Frederick Lewis , Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 [2343] (8th edition 2004).
Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists [1427] (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999 Boston, MA).

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