Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott
• Name: Curtmantle
• Religion: Henry's desire to reform England's relationship with the Church led to conflict with his former friend Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. This controversy lasted for much of the 1160s and resulted in Becket's death in 1170
• _MILT: Sons Philip and Richard feared that Henry would make John king, and a final rebellion broke out in 1189. Decisively defeated by Philip and Richard and suffering from a bleeding ulcer, Henry retreated to Chinon in Anjou, where he died.

Notes:

Buried:
Fontevraud Abbey

Henry married Ida de Tosny before 1176. Ida was born in 1156 in Norwich, Norfolk, England; died on 7 Mar 1226 in Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Ida was a royal ward and mistress of King Henry, by whom she was mother of one of his illegitimate sons - William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.

Henry married Eleanor of Aquitaine on 11 May 1152 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. Eleanor was born on 22 Nov 1121 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France; died on 31 Mar 1204 in Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France; was buried in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. King of England John Plantagenet was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester, Worcestershire, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Handsome

Notes:

Buried:
(St Julien's Cathedral)

Geoffrey married Holy Roman Empress Matilda of England on 11 Jun 1128. Matilda (daughter of Duke of Normandy and King of England Henry Plantagenet, I and Queen Consort of England Matilda of Scotland) was born on 7 Feb 1102 in London, England; died on 10 Sep 1167 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry
• Name: Maud
• Occupation: Matilda was the first female ruler of the Kingdom of England, though the length of her effective rule was brief: a few months in 1141. She was never crowned and failed to consolidate her rule (legally and politically)

Notes:

Birth:
(Winchester Castle)

Buried:
Abbey of Bec-Hellouin

Died:
Notre Dame

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: a ruddy man, like David... faithful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs
• _MILT: Crusader and Knight Templar

Notes:

Buried:
Church of the Holy Sepulchre/(Jerusalem)

Died:
Killed in a hunting accident

Fulk married Ermengarde du Maine on 11 Jul 1110 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count de Beaugency Helias Elias du Maine, I and Contessa Maine Matilde de Chateau du Loire) was born in 1092 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
After her death, Fulk left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land, where he married Melisende of Jerusalem and became King of Jerusalem

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Beauclerc
• Religion: As a proponent of religious reform, Henry gave extensively to reformist groups within the Church
• _MILT: Defeated his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebray and went on to conquer Normandy

Notes:

Buried:
Reading Abbey

Died:
died from eating "a surfeit of lampreys."

Henry married Queen Consort of England Matilda of Scotland on 11 Nov 1100 in London, England. Matilda (daughter of King of Scotland Malcolm Canmore, III and Queen of Scotland Saint Margaret Atheling) was born on 1 May 1080 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster, London, England; was buried in Westminster, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott
• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Scotland
• Name: Edith
• Title: Princess of Scotland

Notes:

Buried:
Westminster Abbey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: le Réchin
• Occupation: Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou."

Fulk married Queen Consort of the Franks Bertrade de Montfort in 1089. Bertrade was born in 1070; died on 14 Feb 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: The lecherous Fulk then fell passionately in love with the sister of Amaury de Montfort, whom no good man ever praised save for her beauty
• Religion: Bertrade, still young and beautiful, took the veil at Fontevraud Abbey, always charming to men, pleasing to God, and like an angel

Notes:

Married:
Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philip I

Helias married Contessa Maine Matilde de Chateau du Loire. Matilde was born in 1062 in Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 27 Mar 1099 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Chateau Du

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott
• Name: William the Conqueror
• _MILT: 1066; He launched the Norman conquest of England, killing English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings
• Religion: 1070; Roman Catholic - William founded Battle Abbey, a new monastery at the site of the Battle of Hastings, partly as a penance for the deaths in the battle and partly as a memorial to those dead.
• Occupation: 1085; William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings
• _FUN: 1087, Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; At the Abbey of Saint-Étienne -- indignity occurred when the corpse was lowered into the tomb. The corpse was too large for the space, and when attendants forced the body into the tomb it burst, spreading a disgusting odour throughout the church

Notes:

Birth:
William was the son of the unmarried Robert I, Duke of Normandy by his mistress Herleva. His illegitimate status and his youth caused some difficulties for him after he succeeded his father

Buried:
Abbaye-aux-Hommes

Died:
priory of St Gervase at Rouen

Guillaume married Queen consort of the Kingdom of England Matilda de Flanders in 1053 in Normandy, France. Matilda (daughter of Count of Flanders Baldwin de Flanders, V and Countess of Flanders and Normandy Saint Adela Capet) was born in 1031 in Belgium; died on 2 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; was buried in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Maud
• Title: Duchess of Normandy
• _MILT: When William was preparing to invade England, Matilda outfitted a ship, the Mora, out of her own money and gave it to him

Notes:

Buried:
Abbaye aux Dames Caen

Notes:

Married:
When William sent his representative to ask for Matilda's hand in marriage, she said she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard. He found Matilda on her way to church, dragged her off her horse by her long braids and left her in the street

Notes:

Died:
Killed in battle whilst besieging Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, by the English King

Malcolm married Queen of Scotland Saint Margaret Atheling in 1068 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Saint (daughter of Edward Ætheling and Agatha) was born in Aug 1045 in England; died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Lawrence Hood, Mack Ferrin Smith, and Retha Zulma Gott
• Ordained: St. Margaret of Scotland was canonized in1251 by Pope Innocent IV. She is the patron of Scotland, and her feast is November 16
• Religion: She had a civilizing influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him stories from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to make the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland conform to those of Rome

Notes:

Birth:
Wessex, England

Died:
Edinburgh Castle