the ledger of connections
The Connections of Henry II of England
King of England from 1154 to 1189 Every person recorded alongside Henry II of England in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Henry II of England in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Empress Matilda, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
- Spouses
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Children
- Richard the Lionheart, King John of England, Geoffrey, William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Geoffrey II, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, Eleanor of England, Joan of England, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Morgan, Peter (?)
- Siblings
- William FitzEmpress, Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1133 to 1189.
Medieval era
Francis of Assisi
June 24, 1182 – October 3, 1226
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
Medieval era
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – September 17, 1179
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Medieval era
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1124 – April 1, 1204
Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
Medieval era
Richard the Lionheart
September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
Medieval era
King John of England
December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216
King of England from 1199 to 1216
Medieval era
Frederick Barbarossa
1122 – June 10, 1190
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Medieval era
Saladin
1138 – March 4, 1193
Sultan who united the Muslim world and retook Jerusalem with famed chivalry
Medieval era
Genghis Khan
May 31, 1162 – August 25, 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history
Medieval era
Fibonacci
1170 – c. 1240
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Medieval era
Maimonides
March 30, 1138 – December 13, 1204
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
Medieval era
Averroes
April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Medieval era
Moinuddin Chishti
February 1, 1143 – March 15, 1236
Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)