 1068 - 1135 (67 years)
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| Name |
Henry I Beauclerc Of England |
| Prefix |
King |
| Birth |
Aug 1068 |
Selby, Yorkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1 Dec 1135 |
St Denis le Fermont |
| Burial |
Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England |
| Person ID |
I3529 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
9 Dec 2010 |
| Father |
King William The Conqueror De Normandie, King Of England, b. Between 1027 and 1028, Falaise, Normandy, France d. 7 Sep 1087, Near Rouen, France (Age 60 years) |
| Mother |
Queen Matilda Baldwinsdaughter Vlaanderen, b. 1031, Flanders, France d. 2 Nov 1083, Caen, France (Age 52 years) |
| Marriage |
1053 |
Cathedral Of Notre Dame D'eu, Normandy, France |
| Family ID |
F1657 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Princess Matilda Of Scotland Of Scotland, b. 1080, Dunferline, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminister Place, London, England (Age 38 years) |
| Marriage |
11 Nov 1100 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Sybil |
| | 2. Princess Elizabeth Of England, b. Abt 1095, Of, Talby, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. (Beauclerc), b. Abt Jul 1101 d. Abt 1101 |
| | 4. William, Prince Of England, b. 5 Aug 1103, Winchester d. 25 Nov 1120 (Age 17 years) |
| | 5. Queen Matilda (Plantagenet), Princess Of England, b. 1104, Winchester d. 10 Sep 1167, Rouen, France (Age 63 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1669 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
| Family 4 |
Queen Adelicia Of Louvain, b. Abt 1105, Of, Louvain, Belgium d. 23 Apr 1151, Affigham, Flanders, France (Age 46 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Jan 1122 |
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England |
| Family ID |
F1670 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
| Family 5 |
Sybilla Corbet, b. Abt 1070, Of, Caen, , Calvedos, Normandy, France d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
Not Married |
| Children |
| | 1. Earl Robert Fitzroy Of Caen, b. Abt 1090, Of, Caen, Normandy, France d. 21 Oct 1147, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 57 years) |
| | 2. Princess Maud Of England, b. Abt 1091, England d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F22115 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
9 Dec 2010 |
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| Notes |
King Henry I
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Reading Abbey
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Henry I (born 1068, ruled 1100-35). The youngest son of William the Conqueror was born in England. His nickname, Beauclerc, which means "good scholar," was given him because of his fine education. He seized the crown in the year 1100, when his brother King William II was killed in a hunting accident and his brother Robert, duke of Normandy, who was next in the line of succession, was absent on a crusade (see William, Kings of England). At his accession Henry I issued the famous Charter of Liberties, which, over a hundred years later, was used as the basis of Magna Carta, the foundation of the liberties of the Anglo-Saxon world. He also favored the church in order to gain its backing against the claims of his brother Robert to the English throne. The Charter of Liberties helped gain Henry the support of the nobles. He conciliated the English, conquered by his father, by marrying Matilda, who was the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and who was descended from the Anglo-Saxon kings. The support of the common people was assured by the justice he administered through the King's Court. Henry's only son, William Aetheling, was drowned in 1120 when the White Ship sank in the English Channel. According to legend, the king never smiled again. The accident left his daughter Matilda, widow of the Holy Roman emperor Henry V, and his nephew Stephen contestants for the throne at his death.
The youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror's sons, Henry strengthened the crown's powers and modernized royal administration.
He was crowned at Westminster three days after his brother, William II, had been killed in a hunting accident in 1100.
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| Sources |
- [S1340] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg: J. A. Stargardt, 1980-), II:81 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1452] Weir, Alison., Weir (1989)., (The Bodley Head: London, 1989.), p. 49. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 3:354 (Reliability: 3).
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