Matilda of England 
Matilda of was born in 1086 in England. Matilda of's father was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and her mother was Edith. Her paternal grandparents were William I "The Conqueror" King of England and Matilda (Maud) of Flanders. She had five half-brothers and seven half-sisters, named Henry, Reynold de, Robert de, William de, Robert, Maud of, Maud "The Empress" Princess of, Sibylla, Mabel (Eustacia), Elizabeth of, Alice of and Constance. She died at the age of 34 on November 25th, 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship along with Prince William.General Notes
(1) MAUD, whose mother was Edith, of whom nothing is known (b). She m. in 1103, Rotrou, COUNT of Perche, styled the Great, s. and h. of Geoffrey, Count of Perche, by Beatrice, da. of Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and (jure uxoris) Count of Roucy. Rotrou had gone on the 1st Crusade in 1096. In 1105 and 1114 he went to Spain, to help his cousin Alfonso I, King of Navarre and Aragon, against the Moors. In 1114 he assisted Henry I at the siege of Belleme, which he had long before claimed as his hereditary right. The King granted him the Belleme fiefs. He was present at the death of his royal father-in-law in 1135. In 1137 Stephen gave him Moulins; but in 1141 he made terms with Geoffrey Plantagenet. Maud was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship, 25 Nov. 1120, leaving 2 daughters. Rotrou m., 2ndly, before 1127, Hawise, da. of Walter de Salisbury, and sister of Patrick, 1st EARL OF Salisbury. He d. in 1144 at the siege of the Tower of Rouen (20 Jan. to 23 Apr.) by Geoffrey Plantagenet, and his widow m., as his 2nd wife, Robert, 1st Count of Dreux, 3rd s. of Louis VI (Le Gros), King of France; which Robert styled himself Count of Perche and lord of Belleme during the minority of his stepson.
(b) As her daughter married in 1103, she cannot be the daughter of Forn.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0942 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.~ 0950 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.29 Jun 0992 in killed
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.0978 in Falaise, Clavados, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.0980 in France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.Dec 0961 in Flanders, France d.30 Mar 0987 in Chapel de St Laurent, France
- b.~ 0980 in Flanders now Belgium d.30 May 1036 in Flanders now Belgium
- b.~ 0962 in Luxembourg d.26 JAN 1002/03
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, France
- b.~ 0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0995 in Luxemburg d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flanders, France
- b.~ 0965 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.ABT JAN 940/41 in Paris, Seine, France d.14 Oct 0996 in Les Juifs, Chartres, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 0945 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France d.~ 1004
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'O, Messines, France
- b.0950 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.0994 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.1086 in England d.25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship along with Prince William
- b.~ 1070 in England
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