Her father had commanded her to marry a 15 year-old boy, Geoffrey, the eldest son of the Count of Anjou. King Henry hoped the arranged marriage at Le Mans Cathedral would produce a male heir ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

Following this, Henry decided that his daughter, Matilda, would be his heir and announced her marriage to Geoffrey of Anjou. Geoffrey was the Count of Anjou – a region in France which bordered ...