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How many children did Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine have?
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Henry II (left) disputing with Thomas Becket (center), miniature from a 14th-century manuscript; in the British Library (Cotton MS. Claudius D.ii).
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine had eight children together: five sons and three daughters.1
The children were:
- Sons: William (who died at age three), Henry, Richard the Lionheart, Geoffrey (duke of Brittany), and John (who eventually became king of England).1
- Daughters: Matilda (who married Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Bavaria), Eleanor (who married Alfonso VIII, king of Castile), and Joan (who married William II, king of Sicily, and later Raymond VI, count of Toulouse).1