Maud 'the Empress Maud' Of ENGLAND

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• Fact: Matilda and Henry V had no issues.
• Fact: Empress of Germany
• Crowned: 07 Jan 1114

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Excerpt from Blood Royal: Her remains were reinterred in 1282 before the high altar; during the revolution, her grave was detroyed. According to the "Dictionary of National Biography", the church and tomb were destroyed by fire in 1263; when it was restored in 1282, her remains were found, 'wrapped in an ox-hide." Her new tomb was stripped of its decorations by the English in 1421; a brass plate marking her grave in 1684 was lost in 1793; and the church was demolished in 1841. In 1846, her lead coffin was rediscovered and moved to the cathedral church of Rouen.

Maud married Henry V Of The Holy Roman EMPIRE on 07 Jan 1114 in Mainz. Henry died on 23 May 1125 in Utrecht; was buried in Speyer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Geoffrey V Plantagenet 'the fair' D'ANJOU on 22 May 1127 in Le Mans. Geoffrey (son of Foulques V 'the Young" D'ANJOU and Ermengarde DE MAINE) was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France; died on 07 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Loir; was buried in Le Mans Cathedral. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry II 'Curtmantle' King Of ENGLAND was born on 05 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France; died on 06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Liore, France.
2. Geoffrey MARTEL was born between 01 Mar and 01 Jun 1134 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; died in 1158 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France; was buried in Nantes.
3. William PLANTAGENET was born on 21 Jul 1136 in Argentan, Orne, France; died in 1164 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; was buried in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
4. Emma PLANTAGENET was born about 1138 in Normandy, France.

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• 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

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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.

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]

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• Crowned: 11 Nov 1100, Westminster Abbey

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"All traces of her tomb has disappeared."

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

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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]

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

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

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• Fact: Between 1058 and 1093, King of Scotland
• Fact: 17 Mar 1057/8, Crowned at Scone

Malcolm married St. Margaret Of SCOTLAND in 1068/9 in Dunfermline. St. (daughter of Edward "the Atheling" and Agatha Von Brunswick Princess Of ENGLAND) was born in 1045 in Hungary; died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland; was buried in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]