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Subject: Re: Geoffrey Plantagenet's name
Date: 6 Feb 2006 23:26:11 -0800
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W David Samuelsen schrieb:
> <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2006-02/1139280743>;
>
> CED,
> Geoffrey received his nickname for the sprig of broom (= genêt plant, in
> French) he wore in his hat as a badge.
>
> Hence his descendants are known as the Plantagenets, to separate from
> the rest of the Angevins. The lines continued until last of the male
> Plantagenets died out, females marrying into the Lancaster and York
> houses as well as fraticides. The last Plantagenet King was Richard II
> and his actions led to his abdication, died either by murder or
> starvation depending on whose version it was then, and succeeded by
> Henry IV Bolingbroke, first of House of Lancaster.
>
> Suggest you do your history homework!
Oh dear, I suggest you do yours! No female Plantagenet married into
the houses of Lancaster and York: these were male-line branches of the
Plantagenet family who took their peerage titles (the Dukedoms of
Lancaster and York) as house names in order to distinguish one branch
from another. Thus, the last Plantagenet monarch was Richard III.
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