Ancestry of
John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

Henry II, King of England

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• • 15th Great-grandfather of John Dryden — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 157424 
  • Father:
  • Geoffrey Plantagenet 
  • Mother:
  • Maud of England   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Mar 1133 
  • Birth Location:
  • Le Mans, France 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Jul 1189 
  • Death Location:
  • Chinon, France 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Marriage Date:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Eleanor of England

  John, King of England (Ahnentafel No:78712 )

  • Notes: 
  • King of England

• Additional marriages for Henry II, King of England

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  • Spouse:
  • Ida de Tony
  • Marriage Date:
  • NOT MARRIED

• Sources for Henry II, King of England

  • ¹ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, Vol. II, London: J. Billing, Printer and Stereotyper (1851), Pedigree xv: Frevile Lambton Burne, Esq..
  • ² Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 24.
  • ³ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁴ Morris, Jean, The Monarchs of England, New York: Charterhouse (1975), 29.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 31.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 102.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 1, pp. 417, 612.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. III, p. 408.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 442, 454-455, 457.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 737, 742, 757, 845.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Henry II of England", (accessed 04/12/2011).