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|Name=Plantagenet
|Blazon=Gu. three lions pass. guard. or, were borne by King Henry II., after his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine. The royal shield had previously exhibited simply two lions. The royal arms thus continued unaltered till the time of Edward III., who assumed, in right of his mother, Isabella, dau of Philip the Fair, the fleurs-de-lis of France. Edward III. was the first English monarch who bore a crest, and the one he took has, A lion pass. guard. crowned or, on a chapcau. His shield was, 1st and 4th, az. scmee of fleurs-de-lis or; 2nd and 3rd, gu. three lions pass. guard. or. Henry V. adopted, however, the alteration introduced by the French King, and limited the number of fleurs-de-lis to three. The eventual heiress of the house of Plantagenet was the Princess Elizabeth of York, dau. of Edward IV.. and Queen Consortof Henry VII.; the representative and heir general of her eldest dau. Margaret, wife of James IV. of Scotland, is Madia Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, wife of Louis, Prince of Bavaria, the senior co-heir-general and co-representative of her second dau. Mary Tudor, wife of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Is RiCHAaD Plantaoenet Campbell, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, while the Earl of Jersey is the senior co-heir of Lady Eleanor Brandon, second dau. of the Princess Mary Tudor.
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|Info=founded by Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, who, it is Paid by some writers, derived the name, afterwards .so illustrious in his royal descendants, from the full blossomed branch of the yellow broom {planta-genistce}, which he wore by way of plume in his helm. Rapin ascribes, however, the assumption of Plantaoenet to Fulk, the great Count of Anjou, who, "being stung with remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and before the Holy Sepulchre was scourged with broom twigs, which grew in great plenty there. Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, m. 1127, Matilda, or Maud, widow of the Emperor Henry V., of Germany, and dau, and heiress of Henry I., King of England, and had by her a son and successor, Henry, who ascended the English throne as second of his name, and founded the Plantaoenet dynasty
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