Henry I Beauclerc 
Henry I was born about September 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England. Henry I's father was William 'The Conqueror' and his mother was Matilda of Flanders. His paternal grandparents were Robert II "the Magnificent" and Herleva Arlette De Falaise; his maternal grandparents were Baldwin V 'the Pious' and Adela (Alix) Capet. He had six brothers and eight sisters, named Prince of England, Prince of England, II, Prince of England, William II, Prince of England, Princess of England, Princess of England, Princess of England, Princess of England, Princess of England, Princess of England, Princess of England and Maud. He was the third youngest of the fifteen children. He had a half-brother named William "the Elder". He died on December 1st, 1135 in Westminster Palace, London, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.General Notes
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 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.
Henry I (of England)
Henry I (of England) (1068-1135), third Norman king of England (1100-1135), fourth son of William the Conqueror. Henry was born in Selby. On the death of his brother William II in 1100, Henry took advantage of the absence of another brother- Robert, who had a prior claim to the throne- to seize the royal treasury and have himself crowned king at Westminster. By defeating Robert, who was Duke of Normandy, at Tinchebray, France, in 1106, Henry also won Normandy. Henry designated his daughter Matilda as his heiress. After his death in 1135, however, Henry's nephew, Stephen of Blois, usurped the throne, plunging the country into a protracted civil war that ended with the accession of Matilda's son, Henry II, in 1154.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0921 in Normandy, France d.17 DEC 942
- b.28 AUG 933 in Normandy, France d.20 NOV 996 in Fecamp, France
- b.0882 in Bretagne, France d.< 0950
- b.~ 0958 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, France
- b.~ 0911 in Crêpon, Normandy, France d.1002
- b.~ 0936 in Crêpon, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.~ 0910 in Denmark
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.~ 0914 d.0952
- b.~ 0944 in Bretagne, France d.27 JUN 992
- b.~ 0914
- b.0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.11 NOV 938 in Anjou, France d.21 JUL 987
- b.~ 0960 in Anjou, France d.0992
- b.~ 0945 in Vermandois, Neustria d.12 MAR 984/85
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise Castle, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrube, Near Rouen, France
- b.~ 0930 in Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark d.0984
- b.~ 0940 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.0985
- b.~ 0947 in Denmark d.18 Sep 1000 in Norway
- b.~ 1078 in Falaise, Normandy
- b.~ 0941 in Halland, Sweden
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.~ 1050
- b.~ 1080 in Falaise, Normandy
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Westminster Palace, London, England
- b.~ 0940 in Flanders, France d.1 NOV 962
- b.~ 0961 in Flanders, France d.30 MAR 987
- b.~ 0948 in Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.30 May 1035 in Flandres, France
- b.0900 in Ivrea, Italy d.6 AUG 966 in Bamburg, Germany
- b.~ 0950 in Ivrea, Italy d.26 JAN 1002/03
- b.~ 0899 in Tuscany, Italy
- b.1012 in Flanders, Belgium d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.0918 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.28 OCT 998
- b.~ 0945 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0927 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.13 DEC 992
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flandres, France
- b.~ 0925 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.0992
- b.~ 0948 in Gleiberg, Gremany
- b.~ 0925 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandy
- b.~ 0895 in Paris, France d.16 JUN 956 in Deurdan, Dourdan, France
- b.0938 in Paris, Isle de France d.24 AUG 996 in Paris, Isle de France
- b.~ 0910 in Saxony, Holy Roman, Empire d.14 MAR 963/64 in Aix-la-Chappelle, France
- b.27 MAR 971 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, France
- b.~ 0929 in Poitiers, Vienne, France d.3 APR 963
- b.~ 0945 in Poitiers, Vienne, France d.15 Jun 1006
- b.~ 0925 in Normandie, Neustria d.14 OCT 962
- b.1009 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastaere de l'Order de St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.~ 0918 in Autun, Burgundy, France d.13 SEP 935
- b.0947 in Toulouse, France d.Sep 1037
- b.~ 0920 in Vienne, France
- b.0973 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.25 Jul 1032
- b.~ 0909 in Anjou, France d.11 NOV 958 in Tours, France
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026
- b.~ 0920 in Maine, France d.~ 0952
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Henry I and Matilda were married in a religious ceremony on November 11th, 1100 in Westminster Abbey, London, England. They had two sons and two daughters, named William the, Richard, Euphamia and Matilda the.
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Children
Matilda the Empress
Matilda the was born in 1103 in Winchester, England. She died at the age of 64 on September 10th, 1167 in Abbey of Notre Dame des Pres, Rouen, France. She was buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France.
They had a daughter named Matilda of.
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Children
Matilda of England
Matilda of was born about 1086 in London, Middlesex, England. She died on November 25th, 1120.
They had a son named Henry fitz Henry.
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Children
Robert "The Consul" de Caen
Robert "The Consul" was born about 1090 in Caen, Normandy. He died on October 31st, 1147 in Bristol, Gloucester, England.
Reynold de Dunstanville
Reynold was born about 1110 in Ketelby Bellars, England. He died on July 1st, 1175 in Chertsey, Surrey, England.
They had a daughter named Elizabeth Joan.
He had a biological daughter named Eustacia of.
He had a biological daughter named Alice of.
They had a daughter named Constance of.
He had a biological daughter named Maud of.
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Children
Maud of England
Maud of was born in 1085 in Yorkshire, England. She died at the age of 35 on November 25th, 1120 in English Channel, aboard the, "White Ship".
They had a daughter named Sibyl.
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