House of Plantagenet facts for kids

House of Plantagenet
Quick facts for kids Armorial of Plantagenet
Country:	Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France, Lordship of Ireland, Principality of Wales
Parent House:	Angevins
Titles:	King of England King of the Romans Lord of Ireland Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitaine Duke of Normandy Duke of Brittany Count of Anjou Count of Maine Count of Nantes Count of Poitou Lord of Cyprus Plantagenet claim to France Plantagenet claim to Jerusalem Plantagenet claim to Sicily Plantagenet claim to Rome Plantagenet claim to Castile
Founder:	Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
Final Ruler:	Richard III of England
Founding Year:	1126
Dissolution:	1485
Ethnicity:	French, English
Cadet Branches:	House of Lancaster House of York

The House of Plantagenet ruled England in some form or another from the reign of Henry II, beginning in 1154, until the House of Tudor came to power when Richard III fell at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

It goes back to the Angevin counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou. Three dynasties belong to it: Angevins, House of Lancaster (Lancastrians) and House of York (Yorkists). Lancastrians and Yorkists fought against each other the Wars of the Roses to get the crown for their dynasty alone.

Plantagenets

Angevins

• Empress Matilda (1141)
• Henry II (1154-1189)
• Richard I, the Lionheart (1189-1199)
• John (1199-1216)
• Henry III (1216-1272)
• Edward I (1272-1307)
• Edward II (1307-1327) (deposed, died 1327)
• Edward III (1327-1377)
• Richard II (1377-1399) (deposed, died 1400)

Lancastrians

• Henry IV (1399-1413)
• Henry V (1413-1422)
• Henry VI (1422-1461 and 1470-1471)

Yorkists

• Edward IV (1461-1470 and 1471-1483)
• Edward V (uncrowned) (1483) (deposed 1483, most likely assassinated)
• Richard III (1483-1485)

Images for kids

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  Henry II (1154–1189) is considered by some to be the first Plantagenet king of England, and the first Angevin.

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  A 13th-century depiction of Henry II and his legitimate children: William, Henry, Richard, Matilda, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan and John

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  Richard I's Great Seal of 1189, the History Museum of Vendee

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  One of only four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text of the Magna Carta, in the British Library, London.

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  A cast of the tomb effigy of Henry III in Westminster Abbey, c.1272

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  A scene from the Holkham Bible showing knights and foot soldiers from the Battle of Bannockburn.

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  Isabella (third from left) with her father, Philip IV, her future French king brothers, and Philip's brother, Charles of Valois

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  The Battle of Crécy was an important Plantagenet victory of the Hundred Years' War in France. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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  Richard II meets the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt in an illumination from Froissart's Chronicles. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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  A portrait of Richard II (c. 1390). Westminster Abbey, London.

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  Parchment miniature of Henry V's victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, from Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique de France circa 1495

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  The Battle of Tewkesbury, as illustrated in the Ghent manuscript

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  Elizabeth of York

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  Cardinal Reginald Pole

See also

In Spanish: Casa de Plantagenet para niños