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

Matilda married Count of Anjou, Touraine, Maine and Duke of Normandy Geoffrey Plantagenet, V on 11 Jun 1128. Geoffrey (son of Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem Fulk de Anjou, V and Ermengarde du Maine) was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Eurre, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, and Lord of Ireland, and King of England Henry Plantagenet, II was born on 5 Mar 1132 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; was buried in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.
2. Count William Poitou Plantagenet was born on 22 Jul 1136 in Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 30 Jan 1164 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.

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:

• 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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct ancestor of Josie May Bunker
• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I,_Duke_of_Normandy
• Name: the Magnificant
• _MILT: The civil war that he brought against his brother, Richard III, caused much instability until he was subsequently defeated and forced to swear fealty to his older brother.

Notes:

Died:
Returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Robert married Herleve Harlette Arletta de Falaise. Herleve was born on 9 Jun 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 23 Apr 1078 in Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _MILT: At Adela's instigation he rebelled against his father but in 1030 peace was sworn and the old count continued to rule until his death

Baldwin married Countess of Flanders and Normandy Saint Adela Capet in Aug 1027 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Saint (daughter of King of the Franks Robert Capet, II and Constance True d'Arles de Provence) was born in 1003 in France; died on 8 Jan 1079 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France; was buried in Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott
• Name: the Holy
• Occupation: After Baldwin’s death, she went to Rome, took the nun’s veil from the hands of Pope Alexander II and retired to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres
• Ordained: Saint Adela of Messines is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, and her commemoration day is 8 September
• Religion: Adèle had an especially great interest in Baldwin V’s church-reform politics and was behind her husband’s founding of the Colleges of Aire, Lille and Harelbekeas well as the abbeys of Messines and Ename

Notes:

Buried:
Benedictine convent of Messines

Notes:

Married:
After the death of Richard III

Other Events and Attributes:

• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_I_of_Scotland
• Name: the Gracious

Notes:

Died:
Battle Of Pitgavenny, by his own men led by Macbeth

Duncan married Sibyl Fitzsiward. Sibyl was born in 1014 in Northumberland, England; died in 1040 in Iona, Argyll, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Exile

Notes:

Died:
He died within two days of his arrival back in England

Edward married Agatha. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]