Prince Henry ENGLAND

   Another name for Henry was ENGLAND Prince.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-SD.

   General Notes:

Prince of ENGLAND.

Died in his twenties.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Henry, The Young King, Crowned 1170 & 1172, Duke of Normandy,Count of Anjou, Mar Margaret Daughter of Louis VII King of France, Died 1183."

The Political History of England George Burton Adams 1066-1216, Longmans Green and Co, 1905
Ch XII, p262: [1156] "...Before the submission Hugh Mortimer the third of the great councils of the year had been held at Wallingford early in April, and there the barons had been required to swear allegiance to Henry's eldest son William, and in case of his death to his brother Henry who had been born a few weeks before..."
p267: [1158] "...It was probably the death of his brother and the question of the occupation of Nantes that led Henry to cross to Normandy in August. He went first of all, however, to meet the king of France near Gisors.There it was agreed that Henry's son Henry, now by the death of his eldest brother recognized as heir to the throne, should marry Louis' daughter Margaret. The children were still both infants, but the arrangement was made less for their sakesthan for peace between their fathers and for substantial advantages which Henry hoped to gain. First he desired Louis' permission to take possession of Nantes, and later, on the actual marriage of the children, was to come the restoration of the Norman Vexin which Henry's father had been obliged to give up to France in the troubles of his time..."
p271: [1160] "...Henry saw the probable results, and at once responded [to the marriage of Louis VII and Alice of Champagne] with aneffort to improve his frontier defences. The marriage of the young Henry and Margaret of France was immediately celebrated, though the elder of the two was still a mere infant. This marriage gave Henry the right to take possession of the Norman Vexin and its strong castles, and this he did..."
p335: "...Henry had what satisfaction there could be to him in spending the Christmas of 1182 at Caen with his three sons, Henry, Richard, and Geoffrey, and with his daughter Matilda andher exiled husband, the Duke of Saxony. This family concord was at once broken by Richard's flat refusal to swear fealty to his elder brother for Aquitaine. Already the Aquitanian rebels had begun to look to the young Henry for help against his brother...In the rebellion of the barons that followed, young Henry and his brother Geoffrey acted an equivocal and most dishonourable part. Really doing all they could to aid the rebels against Richard, they repeatedly abused the patience and affection of their father with pretended negotiations to gain time. Reduced to straits for money, they took to pluncering the monasteries and shrines of Aquitaine...Immediately after one of the robberies, particularly heinous according to theideas of the time, the young king fell ill and grew rapidly worse. His message, asking his father to come to him, was treated with the suspicion that it deserved after his recent acts, and he died with only his personal followers about him, striving to atone for his life of sin at the last moment by repeated confession and partaking of the sacrament, by laying on William Marshal the duty of carrying his crusader's cloak to the Holy Land, and by ordering the clergy present to drag him with a rope around his neck on to a bed of ashes where he expired.
p337: "The prince who died thus pitifully on June 11, 1183, was near the middle of his twenty-ninth year. He had never had an opportunity to show what he could do as a ruler in an independent stateion, but if we may trust the indications of his character in other directions, he would have belonged to the weakest and worst type of the combined houses from which he was descended. But he made himself beloved by those who knew him, and his early death was deeply mourned even by the father who had suffered so much from him. Few writers of the time saw clearly enough to discern the frivolous character beneath the surface of attractive manners, and to thepoets of chivalry lament was natural for one in whom they recognized instinctively the expression of their own ideal. His devoted servant, William Marshal, carried out the mission with which he had been charged, and after an absence of two years on a crusade for Henry the son, he returned and entered the service of Henry the father."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol I, The Conquering Family, Thomas B Costain, 1949, Doubleday & Co, p46:
"Eleanor gave her husband 8 children. The2nd [after William] was a boy born soon after the death of the sickly little William, who had escaped the stigma of illegitimacy by such a narrow margin. The new son was called Henry, and he was healthy and strong. His father conceived for hima love which nothing could break, not even the boy's early assumption of the fole of Absalom. The sweetness in the King's eyes was apparent to everyone when little Henry was about. The King was an indulgent and affectionate father to all his children, but his own namesake remained the favorite through all the stresses of the bitter years ahead."
p120: "These events were to have a sequel which involved Henry in the greatest sorrow of his life. A message reached him in 1183 thathis eldest son was dangerously ill at Chateau Martel near Limoges and wanted to see him. It looked like a trap. The King could not be sure the message had come from his son and so paid no attention to it.
"But the heir of England was evenmore ill than the message indicated. He was dying. A malignant fever had taken possession of him, and he seemed to be burning away to nothing before the eyes of his attendants. His sins weighed heavily on his mind and he talked incessantly of the need for repentance...
"The King had not loved anyone as much as his son Henry. The news of his death was a loss from which the rapidly aging monarch never recovered. It was clear to all about him that he had received a mortal blow. Hebrooded continuously, his temper was short, he took no interest in what went on about him. The Young King was dead. Nothing else seemed to matter."

Eleanor of Aquitaine the Mother Queen, Desmond Seward, 1978, Dorset Press, p62:
"MargaretDaughter of Constance of CASTILE and Louis VII King of FRANCE, Married (1) 1160 Henry, Son of Henry II King of ENGLAND..."

The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford Univ Press, pxix: "Normans and Plantagenets Genealogy: Henry, died 1183."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, Alfred A Knopf, 1975, p25: "The Young King 1155-83..."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk V, The Climax of Christianity, ChXXV, The Recovery of Europe, Sec VIII, England, p672: "Henry II's wife Eleanor, banished and imprisoned by the adulterous King, plotted with her sons to depose him. His eldest son Henry led feudal rebellions against him in 1173 and 1183, and died in revolt. In 1189 his sons Richard and John, impatiently awaiting his death, allied themselves with Philip Augustus of France in war upon their father..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol XV, p827, Richard I the Lion- Heart of England: "...The third son of Henry II and Eleanor...like all [their] sons, he had little or no filial piety, foresight, or sense of responsibility. He joined his brothers in the great rebellion (1173-1174) against their father, who invaded Aquitaine twice before Richard submitted and received pardon... Richard's harshness infuriated the Gascons, who revolted in 1183 and called in the help of the `Young King' Henry and his brother Geoffrey of Brittany in an effort to drive Richard from his duchy altogether. Alarmed at the threatened disintegration of his empire, Henry II brought the feudal host of his continental lands to Richard's aid, but the younger Henry died suddenly (June 11, 1183) and the uprising collapsed..."

The Magnificent Century, Thomas B Costain, 1951, Popular Library, p20: "Henry Born 1155, Died 1183, Married Marguerite of France, Died without issue..."

ANCESTAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJ3-SD.

   Marriage Information:

Henry married Princess Margaret FRANCE, daughter of King Louis FRANCE, VII and Queen Constance Castile FRANCE, on 2 Nov 1160-1173 in Neubourg, Manche, Normandy, France. (Princess Margaret FRANCE was born in 1156-1158 in Paris, Seine, France and died in 1197-1198 in St Jean D'acre, Galilee, Palestine.)