Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

Duke of Normandy

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou is remembered in public life for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou as Duke of Normandy.

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou was born in 1113. His recorded nationality is France.

Learning then moved through courts, monasteries and madrasas, and reach depended on which libraries and translations lay within travelling distance.

The record gives his occupations as aristocrat.

Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.

Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou died in 1151 at the age of 38. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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