Henry II

Also known as: Henrie the second / K. Henrie / king Henrie the second · Family: England · Role: king of England · First appears: King John 1

Henry II, king of England of the English royal house, was the son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Francis I, father of King John and Richard I, and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. His relations with King John also included King John’s seeking absolution and promising to defend the church and priesthood.

Around c. 1200 at Lincolne, Henry II brought Hugh of Lincoln into England, made him abbot of Whithing, and then appointed him bishop of Lincolne; Hugh of Lincoln is recorded as both his feudal dependent and his patronage beneficiary. By c. 1453, Aquitaine, associated with Henry II’s marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, was finally returned from English possession to French obedience.

Relationship record

Life events

• c. 1200 · Henry II appointed Hugh of Lincoln bishop of Lincolne after making him abbot of Whithing.(King John 5 · 📍 Lincolne)
  • With: Hugh of Lincoln
  • “King Henrie the second mooued with the fame of his vertue and godlie life, sent the bishop of Bath to bring him into England, and after he was come, made him first abbat of Whithing in the diocesse of Welles, and after created him bishop of Lincolne.”
• c. 1453 · Aquitaine was finally returned from English possession to French obedience.(Henry VI 48 · 📍 Aquitaine)
  • With: William, Duke of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • “Thus was the duchie of Aquitaine, which had continued in the English possession, from the yeare of our Lord 1155, vnto this present yeare, which is néere hand thrée hundred yeares, by the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second, finallie reduced and brought againe to the French obedience and seruitude.”

King John 1

• child: King John “Iohn the yoongest son of Henrie the second was proclaimed king of England”

King John 3

• parent: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou “as that which had béene granted by Geffrey earle of Aniou, the father of king Henrie the second, vnto Lewes le Grosse”

King John 4

• child: King John “which at anie time his brother king Richard, or his father king Henrie had holden of him”

King John 5

• liege: Hugh of Lincoln “King Henrie the second mooued with the fame of his vertue and godlie life, sent the bishop of Bath to bring him into England, and after he was come, made him first abbat of Whithing in the diocesse of Welles, and after created him bishop of Lincolne”
• child: Richard I “This maner he vsed, not onelie with the king alone, but with the father and the two sonnes, that is to say, Henrie the second, Richard and John”
• child: King John “This maner he vsed, not onelie with the king alone, but with the father and the two sonnes, that is to say, Henrie the second, Richard and John”
• protégé: Hugh of Lincoln “King Henrie the second mooued with the fame of his vertue and godlie life, sent the bishop of Bath to bring him into England, and after he was come, made him first abbat of Whithing in the diocesse of Welles, and after created him bishop of Lincolne”

King John 21

• younger kin: King John (The chapter identifies John elsewhere as the grandson of King Henrie; this passage supplies the named king in context.) “King John required of the archbishop (hauing as then the popes power in his hands, bicause he was his legat,) to be absolued, promising vpon his solemne receiued oth, that he would (afore all things) defend the church and the order of priesthood from receiuing anie wrongs.”

Henry VI 29

• parent: Francis I “speciallie in the times of king Francis the first, and his sonne Henrie the second”

Henry VI 48

• married with Eleanor of Aquitaine “the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.