Henry I "Beauclerc" King Of ENGLAND

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 25 Dec 1066, Acceded - Westminster Abbey, London, England
• Birth: 1070, Selby, Yorkshire, England
• Fact: Between 1100 and 1135, Reigned as King of England
• Crowned: 06 Aug 1100, Westminster Abbey
• Fact: Between 1106 and 1135, Duke of Normandy

Notes:

Henry was the only one of his father's children to be born in England. Henry I was called Beauclerc because of his love of learning and knowledge. Concerning the name, Henry; according to "Complete Peerage" by Cokayne, Vol. 3, Appendix C, "Before Henry VII the name Henry appeared almost invariably in the forms 'Harry' or Herry' in English Privy Seals." Henry and Adela had no children. Again according the "Complete Peerage", Vol 11, Appendix D, "it seems fairly certain that Henry was the father of at least 9 sons and 11 daughters." It adds, however, "there is no satisfactory modern list of Henry's bastards." Given-Wilson and Curteis (pg 60) state that Henry was father of "at least twenty royal bastards, more than any other king in English history.". There were advantages to a king's having bastards. The marriages of bastards could be used to cement alliances, and, most importantly, bastards were greatly loyal: "being illegitimate, they were almost entirely dependent on the king for advancement.

Family/Spouse: Concubine Of ENGLAND. Concubine was born about 1072 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Of ENGLAND was born in Talby, Yorkshire, England.
2. Juliana Of ENGLAND

Family/Spouse: ANSFRIDE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Fulk Of ENGLAND died in young.

Henry married Adela Of LOUVAIN on 29 Jan 1121. Adela (daughter of Godfrey I "the Bearded" and Ida Of Chiny And NAMUR) was born between 1103 and 1105 in Brabant, Netherlands; died between 23 Mar and 23 Apr 1151 in Afflingham, Flanders, France; was buried on 23 Apr 1151 in Affllighem, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nesta. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maud Of ENGLAND was born in England.
2. Henry FITZ HENRY was born about 1105; died in 1157 in Anglesey.
3. Constance Princess Of ENGLAND

Family/Spouse: Isabel DE BEAUMONT. Isabel (daughter of Sir Robert I DE BEAUMONT and Isabel DE VERMANDOIS) was born about 1096 in Leicester, England; died about 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isabel Of ENGLAND
2. Gilbert Of ENGLAND

Henry married Matilda Of SCOTLAND on 11 Nov 1100 in Westminster Abbey, England. Matilda (daughter of Malcolm III CANMORE and St. Margaret Of SCOTLAND) was born in 1079 in Dunfermline, Scotland; died on 01 May 1118 in Westminster, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Matilda Of ENGLAND was born in 1086; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in the wreck of the "White Ship".
2. William DE TRACY was born after 1090; died about 1135.
3. Robert Of ENGLAND
4. Richard Prince Of ENGLAND was born about 1101 in England; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in the wreck of the "White Ship".
5. EUPHEMIA was born in Jul 1101; died in young.
6. Maud 'the Empress Maud' Of ENGLAND was born on 7 Feb 1102 in Winchester, England; died on 10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, France; was buried in Abbey Of Bec.
7. William AUDELIN was born before 05 Aug 1103 in Winchester, England; died on 25 Nov 1120.
8. Alice Of ENGLAND
9. Eustacia Of ENGLAND

Family/Spouse: Sibyl CORBET. Sibyl died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rohese Of ENGLAND died after 1175/6.
2. William Of ENGLAND
3. Gundred FITZ ROY
4. Sibylla Of ENGLAND was born about 1090; died between 12 and 13 Jul 1122 in Island Of loach Tay.
5. Robert "the Consul" DE CAEN was born about 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France; died on 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Glouchstershire, England; was buried in St. James Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
6. Reginald FITZ ROY died on 01 Jul 1175 in Chertsey, Surrey; was buried in Reading Abbey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Duke of Normandy
• Name: Guillaume De Normandie I
• Fact: Between 1066 and 1087, King of England
• Crowned: 25 Dec 1066, Westminster Abbey

Notes:

Guillaume, also known as William the Conqueror was crowned December 25, 1066. Sometimes he was called William the Bastard. William's heart was left to Rouen Cathedral,( which he had founded) and his entrails were interred at the church in Chalus. HIs burial place has been often disturbed: in 1522, Rome instructed an examination of the grave contents; in 1562, Calvinists caused "complete devastation" of the tomb, in which the only bit of remains of the Conqueror was a thigh bone ( it was reburied under a new monument); the grave was again demolished in the riots of the revolution of 1793. What was the grave of William the Conqueror is today marked with a stone slab. It is believed that William the Conqueror had no illegitimate issue. His reputation was one of faithfulness to his wife.

Excerpt from "Directory of Royal Genealogical Data":
Reigned 1066-1087. Duke of Normandy 1035-1087. Invaded England defeated and killed his rival Harold at the Battle of Hastings and became King. The Norman conquest of England was completed by 1072 aided by the etablishment of feaudalism under which his followers were granted land in return for pledges of service and loyalty. As King William was noted for his efficient if harsh rule. His administration relied upon Norman and other foreign personnel especially Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1085 started Domesday Book.

In the middle of the 11th century, the Normans conquered both Southern Italy and England. William, who had a claim on the English throne, defeated the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, and was crowned King on Christmas Day in 1066. A new alien aristocracy was imposed upon more than two million English people, and England was given firm, but arrogant, government. The Normans dispossessed many of the Anglo-Saxon landowners, pressed the peasantry into service on their new feudal territories, and treated their Anglo-Saxon subjects with contempt, but they also taught better farming, developed the economy, put an end to Viking raids, and built many fine stone cathedrals and churches.

William married Matilda Of FLANDERS in 1053. Matilda (daughter of Count of Flanders Baldwin V "the Pious" and Adela Of FRANCE) was born in 1031/2 in Flandres; died between 02 and 03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandy; was buried in Abbey Of Holy Trinity, Caen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 11 May 1068, (Whit Sunday), Winchester Cathedral

Notes:

Matilda was crowned May 11, 1068 (Whit Sunday), Winchester Cathedral. She is burried at Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, which she had founded.