Plantage net

The family name of the House of Anjou, which succeeded to the throne of England at the extinction of the Norman dynasty. It was a umed by Fulke Martel, the first of this line, as a perpetual reminder of the incident of having allowed himself to be scourged by two attendants with branches of the genista , or broom plant, while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, as an atonement for his murder of the Earl of Britt any.