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Henry I Beauclerc , King of England
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| Name[11] |
Henry I Beauclerc , King of England |
| Alt Name |
, 11th Duke of Normandy |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[13] |
Sep 1068 |
Selby, Yorkshire, England |
| Marriage |
abt 1088 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to "1" (add) |
| Marriage |
abt 1090 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to Ansfride , of Abingdon Abbey |
| Marriage |
abt 1091 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to "4" (add) |
| Marriage |
abt 1095 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to "16" (add) |
| Marriage |
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Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to Isabelle de Beaumont |
| Marriage |
abt 1098 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to "13" (add) |
| Occupation? |
bet 3 Aug 1100 and 1135 |
King of England |
| Other? |
5 Aug 1100 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, EnglandCoronation |
| Ancestral File Number |
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8XJ0-6V |
| Other? |
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House of Normandy |
| Marriage |
11 Nov 1100 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Princess Matilda of Scotland |
| Marriage |
BET 1103 AND 1105 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to Nest ferch Rhys , Princess of Wales |
| Occupation? |
bet 1106 and 1135 |
Duke of Normandy |
| Marriage |
abt 1121 |
Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to Edith Fitzforne |
| Marriage |
24 Jan 1121 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Adeliza , of Louvain |
| Alt Marriage |
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Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandRoyal Chapel to Adeliza , of Louvain |
| Marriage |
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Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to Sibylla Corbet |
| Other |
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Speculative child?: Rohese Unknown (3) with Sibylla Corbet |
| Marriage |
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Cohabitation without marriage formalities? to "7" or "8" or "9" or "10" or "11" or "12" (add) |
| Other |
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No accepted wife? with "7" or "8" or "9" or "10" or "11" or "12" (add) |
| Death[1][13] |
1 Dec 1135 |
Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, FranceForest of Angers |
| Alt Death[15] |
2 Dec 1135 |
Lyon-la-Forêt (Saint Denis) |
| Burial[1] |
4 Jan 1136 |
Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Henry I (c. 1068 / 1069 – 1 December 1135) was King of England from 1100 to 1135. The fourth son of William the Conqueror, Henry succeeded his elder brother William II as King in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106. A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests—he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use—and Lion of Justice for refinements he made to the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalising the itinerant court and publicly espousing the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.
Henry's reign established deep roots for the Anglo-Norman realm, in part through his dynastic (and personal) choice of a Scottish princess who represented the lineage of Edmund Ironside for queen. His succession was hurriedly confirmed while his brother Robert was away on the First Crusade, and the beginning of his reign was occupied by wars with Robert for control of England and Normandy. He successfully reunited the two realms again after their separation on his father's death in 1087. Upon his succession he granted the baronage a Charter of Liberties, which linked his rule of law to the Anglo-Saxon tradition, forming a basis for subsequent limitations to the rights of English kings and presaging Magna Carta, which subjected the king to law.
The rest of Henry's reign, a period of peace and prosperity in England and Normandy, was filled with judicial and financial reforms. He established the biannual Exchequer to reform the treasury. He used itinerant officials to curb the abuses of power at the local and regional level that had characterised William Rufus' unpopular reign, garnering the praise of the monkish chroniclers. The differences between the English and Norman populations began to break down during his reign and he himself married a descendant of the old English royal house. He made peace with the church after the disputes of his brother's reign and the struggles with Anselm over the English investiture controversy (1103–07), but he could not smooth out his succession after the disastrous loss of his eldest son William in the wreck of the White Ship. His will stipulated that he be succeeded by his daughter, the Empress Matilda, but his stern rule was followed by a period of civil war known as the Anarchy.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Henry I of England, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
- Scottish Kings, Scot. 28, p. 1-50.
- Scots Peerage, Scot 2b, v. 1, p. 2.
- Burke's Peerage, Eng. P, 1949, pref. p. 252, 286.
- The Royal Lines of Succession, A16A225, p. 8.
- The Kings of England, Eng. 176, p. 24-33.
- The Royal Daughters of England, Eng. 120, v. 1, p. 39.
- Royal Fam. of Eng., Scot., and Wales, Eng. 260, v. 1, p. 33-46, gen. p. 9-15.
- Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6.
- Buck, J. Orton; Marcellus Donald Alexander von Redlich; Aileen Lewers Langston; and Timothy Field Beard. Pedigrees of some of the Emperor Charlemagne's descendants. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1974-1978, 1979), 2:285.
- ↑ Hansen, Charles M. The Barons of Woodhull: with Observations on the Ancestry of George Elkinton, Emigrant to New Jersey. The Genealogist. (1987).
- Henry I 'Beauclerc', King of England, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 HENRY of England, son of WILLIAM I "the Conqueror", in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
- Henry I, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ Henry I, in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
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