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: 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]

Henry married Lady Arundel, Queen Consort of England Adeliza de Louvain on 29 Jan 1121 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Adeliza was born on 3 Nov 1102 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 23 Apr 1151 in Belgium; was buried in Belgium. [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

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]

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]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Glenn Delsworth Stevens

Count married Cecily FitzPayn in 1155 in Herefordshire, England. Cecily (daughter of Payn FitzJohn and Sibyl Talbot) was born in 1127 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England; died in 1204 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]