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and – as his father’s posthumous son – was styled Duke of Brittany from birth. He was styled Earl of Richmond from 18 April, 1199. He is said, with good probability, to have been murdered by order of King John because of his (Arthur’s) superior claim to the throne of England, probably on 3 April, 1203, either at Rouen or Cherbourg in Normandy. He certainly disappeared before Easter, 1203. He was buried at Notre Dame des Prés at Rouen, Normandy.
    6? Philip
    In 1611, the English antiquarian John Speed claimed in his Historyof Great Britain that Henry and Eleanor had a son called Philip, who was born between 1158 and 1162, but died young; there is no contemporary evidence for his existence, and Speed may have confused him with Richard I’s bastard son Philip.
    7   Eleanor
    She was born on 13 October, 1161, at Domfront Castle, Normandy. She married Alfonso VIII, King of Castile (1156–1214), in September, 1177, at Burgos Cathedral, Castile, and had issue:
    1  Sancho ( b .& d. 1180).
    2  Berengaria, Queen of Castile (1181–1234); she married Alfonso IX, King of Léon (1173–1230), and had issue.
    3  Urracca (1182–1220); she married Alfonso II, King of Portugal (1185–1223), and had issue.
    4  Blanche (1183?–1253); she married Louis VIII, King of France (1187–1226), and had issue.
    5  Henry ( b.c. 1184; d. young).
    6  Ferdinand (1189–1209 or 1211).
    7  Eleanor (1190–1253); she married James I, King of Aragon (1205–1276), and had issue. She was divorced in 1229.
    8  Constance, Abbess of Las Huelgas, Castile ( d. 1243).
    9  Sanchia ( d. young).
    10  Matilda ( d. young).
    11  Henry I, King of Castile (1204–1217); he married Matilda ( d. 1257), daughter of Sancho I, King of Portugal. The marriage was later annulled.
    12  Constance ( d. young).
    Eleanor died on 31 October, 1214, at Burgos, Castile, and was buried there in the Abbey of Las Huelgas.
    8   Joan
    She was born in October, 1165, at Angers Castle, Anjou. She married firstly William II, King of Sicily (1154–1189), on 13 February, 1177, at Palermo Cathedral, Sicily, and had issue:
    1 Bohemond, Duke of Apulia ( b .& d. 1181).
    Joan was crowned Queen of Sicily on 13 February, 1177, at Palermo Cathedral. She married secondly Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156–1222) (who was the son of Constance of France, daughter-in-law of King Stephen), in October, 1196, at Rouen, Normandy, and had issue:
    2  Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197?–1249); he married firstly Sanchia, daughter of Alfonso II, King of Aragon, and had issue. They were divorced in 1241. He married secondly Margaret, daughter of Hugh X de Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by Isabella, widow of King John.
    3  Mary or Wilhelmina ( b .1198); she married Berald of Elbine, Prince of Orange.
    4  Richard (or, less probably, Bertrand) ( b. & d .1199).
    After being veiled as a nun on her deathbed, Joan died on 4 September, 1199, at Fontevrault Abbey, France, either in childbirth or of injuries received in a fire; she was buried at Fontevrault, but her tomb was destroyed during the French Revolution.
    9   King John ( see here ).
    Henry II also had the following illegitimate issue :
    By Ikenai, called ‘a common prostitute’, but probably the daughter of a knight:
1
Geoffrey (1151/3?–1212), Archbishop of York.
2
William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury (before 1170–1226); he may have been the son of Ikenai, but this is doubtful. He married Ela (1196?–1261), daughter of William FitzPatrick, Earl of Salisbury, and had issue. Ela later became Abbess of Lacock in Wiltshire.
3
Peter, called a brother of Geoffrey.
By Alice ( c .1170–before 1225), daughter of Louis VII, King of France (she was at that time betrothed to Henry’s son Richard):
4
Daughter (name not known) ( d . young).
5
Child (name and sex not known) ( d . young).
6
Child (name and sex not known) ( d . young).
7
Child (name and sex not known) ( d . young).
By Nesta, wife of Sir Ralph Bloet or