Henry I, king of England

King of England

Duke of Normandy

Events

Date of Birth: 1068 or 1069.

(possible) Place of Birth: Selby.

Hollister gives his birth as “possibly at Selby” and “between either mid-May and early September 1068 or early February and early May 1069.”

Date of Death: the evening of 1 December 1135.

Place of Death: Lyons-la-Forêt.

The date and place are given by Hollister.

Date of Burial: 4 January 1136.

Place of Burial: Reading Abbey.

The date and place are given by Hollister. Henry’s entrails were buried at the Bec priory of Notre-Dame-du-Pré.

Relationships

Father: William I (the Conqueror), king of England (1027/8 - 1087).

This relationship is given by Hollister.

Mother: Matilda of Flanders (died 1083).

This relationship is given by Hollister.

Spouse: Matilda of Scotland (1080 - 1118). Married 11 November 1100 at Westminster Abbey.

This relationship is given by Hollister, Huneycutt, and Baldwin. The date and place are given by Huneycutt and Baldwin.

Spouse: Adeliza of Louvain (about 1103 - 1151). Married 29 January 1121 at Windsor Castle.

The relationship, date, and place are given by Hollister. Huneycutt and Baldwin give the date as simply 1121.

Children (by Matilda of Scotland):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Matilda (about 8 February 1102 - 10 September 1167) married (1) Emperor Heinrich V in 1114; married (2) Geoffrey V “Plantagenet”, count of Anjou, in 1127.

William “Ætheling” (23 November 1103 - 25 November 1120).

Children (by various mistresses):

Robert “de Caen” (died 1147) married Maud, daughter of Robert Fitz Hamon, lord of Glamorgan. Robert de Caen was earl of Gloucester. His mother was probably a relative of Philip Gai and Nigel, son of William.

Richard (died 25 November 1120). Richard’s mother was Ansfride, widow of Anskill.

Rainald de Dunstanville (died 1175). Rainald was earl of Cornwall. His mother is usually given as Sibyl Corbet, but Baldwin notes that the evidence for this is indirect and not conclusive. Rainald’s mother later married Herbert Fitz Herbert.

Robert (died 1172). Robert’s mother was Edith, possibly the daughter of Form, and later the wife of Robert de Oilli.

Gilbert.

William de Tracy.

Henry (died 1157). Henry’s mother was Nest ferch Rhys ap Tewdwr, the wife of Gerald of Windsor.

Fulk.

Matilda (died 25 November 1020) married Rotrou, count of Perche, in 1103. Matilda’s mother was named Edith.

Matilda married Conan III, duke of Bretagne.

Juliane married Eustache de Pacy, lord of Bréteuil and Pacy, in 1103.

Mabel (?) married William Gouet III, lord of Montmirail.

Constance (or Matilda) married Roscelin de Beaumont.

Alice married Mathieu de Montmorency.

Isabel.

Sybil (died 12 or 13 July 1122) married Alexander I, king of Scotland.

Matilda, abbess of Montivilliers.

Adeliza.

(probably) a daughter who married Fergus, lord of Galloway.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Henry I” in The Henry Project.

Hollister, C. Warren. “Henry I (1068/9 - 1135)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Huneycutt, Lois L. “Adeliza of Louvain (c. 1103 - 1151)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Huneycutt, Lois L. “Matilda (1080-1118)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).