Her father had commanded her to marry a 15 year-old boy, Geoffrey, the eldest son of the Count of Anjou. King Henry hoped ... the death in battle of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king.

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...