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 | | The son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou, and Matilda, daughter of Henry I and briefly queen of England, Henry was born in France on Mar. 5, 1133. |
 | | When Henry II died on July 6, 1189, he was succeeded by his second son, Richard I; the latter was succeeded in turn by his youngest brother, John. |
 | | For the English, probably the most significant event of the crusade was Richard's assent to the Treaty of Messina (1191) with Philip II of France, an ally early in the Crusade; by that treaty the English king formally acknowledged his continental holdings as Philip's fief. |
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