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King Henry II (Henry Curtmantle)

Just popping in some notes for myself.

Henry Curtmantle, aka as King Henry II, is the son of Matilda and George.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14009616/person/39004533/facts

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England

My First Podcast Episode

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Matilda, Emperor, Queen

allegedly 24th g-grandmother

Notes from https://www.biography.com/people/matilda-9402517

b. 1102 in London
d.
Father: King Henry I of England
Mother: Matilda of Scotland (wikipedia below)
Husband 1: Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V
Husband 2: Geoffrey Plantagenet.

Heir to the throne, but opposed. Elected "lady of the English" by clerical council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda
*always question facts on here
b. 2/7/1102
d. 9/1167

Known as Empress Matilda and Empress Maude
Mother: Matilda of Scotland
Claim to thrown during the civil war era "the Anarchy"
Her brother William Adelin died in the White Ship disaster of 1120

Matilda's cousin, Stephen of Blois, too the throne.

Uncle is King David I of Scotland

Son  with Geoffrey Plantagenet is Henry II.

Buried at Bec Abbey in 1167.

Granddaughter (maternal) of King Malcolm II of Scotland (West Saxon Royal Family)

"Queen of the Romans" by marriage to Henry V, King of the Romans

Betrothed at 8 years old to Henry V (24 years) but put in custody of Bruno, Archbishop of Trier
Married January 1114 (12 years old)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/matilda_queen.shtml

Married "Geoffrey of Anjou" who is Geoffrey Plantagenet

Died at Rouen in September 1167

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and German King

From www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-V-Holy-Roman-emperor

Born: Aug. 11, 1086

Died: May 23, 1125, Utrecht, Friesland, Netherlands

German King from 1099

Holy Roman emperor 1111-1125

Second son of Henry IV and Bertha of Turin

Married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England in 1114

www.biography.com

Died in the Netherlands

Crowned by Pope Paschal II 4/13/1111 in St. Peters

Friesland is Frisia

According to biography, they have no children.

No relation to me.

First husband of 24th g-grandmother.

Falk, Fulk, Foulques, Geoffrey, Cantilupe Confusion

I have come across a stumbling block. Everything was matching up for the most part until I reached

Geoffrey V "Le Bon" Plantagenet. When I look at the "relationship to me" section of Ancestry it says that he is my 24th g-grandfather and Foulques le Jenue is his father. When I click on the "relationship to me" for Foulques le Jenue who is supposedly my 25th g-grandfather, I am presented with a tree for a person (child of Foulques) named Guarin de Cantilupe and it continues to the same end of the tree to my real maternal grandfather.

I am so confused. I tried going to history books and sometimes the name is Foulques and sometimes the name is Fulk. Sometimes it is different. The dates are the same, but sometimes the kids are different. I also have no idea who this Cantilupe person is and why they're showing up as it should a great-uncle and not g-grandther the way it is setup in Ancestry. I see nothing on google about a Guarin de Cantilupe; however, on Geni.com, some refer to Guarin as Walter de Cantilupe.

It doesn't help that a lot of the text is in French. Now I'm kicking myself for using Spanish in high school instead of French. I never use my Spanish nor am I any good at it.

The Geni web does not mention Canitlupe at all in the family tree of the Plantaganet family nor do I find it on trees at the LDS site. I suppose I will try to branch off, but I'm not sure Ancestry lets me do this. I might have to make a whole new file with a whole new tree. If anyone knows a way to take a portion of an ancestry gedcom file for testing and save it as another tree without rebuilding it, please let me know in the comments. Thank you.

Royal Blood

I don't get to work on this very often so I've been kind reluctant to do anything with the family history. Every once in a while, I get a bug to work on my project. I went back to figure out the Plantaganet timeline because it was confusing for a while, but I think I've figured it out. I know, Royal Blood seems a little pretentious, but I thought it was an amusing title. Obviously, something went a little awry somewhere as I sit here freezing my buns off at 3:00 AM looking up family history in an office designed from a closet.

With a little bit of cross-referencing with the Encyclopedia Britannica and some other sources, I was able to grab some details that I had no idea about such as monarchies, cool surnames, and nicknames. I have at least 26 ancestors to enter on the paternal side. This does not include all of the wives, brothers, sisters, and so on. I think I will start as far back as I information for and enter the tree in here. It will look like spaghetti code for a while until I have a decent index. I would love to do some creative writing with the work, but there is just so much information to gather. I would like to go on a rather long vacation and visit all of the sites, but I can't even afford the yearly Ancestry subscription or the DNA tests.

My mother did take the DNA test and it confirms that we are mainly from that whole area, mostly English, Irish, Scotish, Welsh, and then some other European areas. I will get down to all of that when I take my test one day and I'm able to explore different trees. I'll have my boys take the test too as well as my brother so we can see more info. I'm no expert on the DNA testing, but the male and female tests are different. I'll need to learn about that as well.

Anyway, I'm going to begin with this tree from my maternal father's side because it is the most interesting so far as it takes me back to the Plantagenets and King Henry I - III, I believe as well as the King of Jerusalem who had a French name that I can't think of at the moment.

History has always fascinated me. I have two businesses to run and I'm doing this on the side just for a few hours on the month. I'll figure it out some time. :)