King Henry I
1068 - 1135


Relationship to me: Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Gen -28

   
Born: 1068
Died: 1135
Age: 67
Father: King William I, William the Conqueror 1027 - 1087
Mother: Mathilda (daughter of Count Baldwin of Flanders)
Brothers: Robert
King William II - William Rufus
Sisters: Adela
Married: (1) Edith or Eadgyth, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland
  (2) Adelaide of Louvain  
Children: (1) William
  (1) Queen Matilda (and Empress of Germany)  
  (2?) Robert de Mellent (Earl of Gloucester)  
(2?) Sibylla

See http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon24.html for further information on King Henry I

From Ian Caldwell 1st Feb 2003: Henry fathered at least 19 royal bastards, but his only legitimate son drowned crossing the Channel in 1120. Henry himself died of a fever while in France, induced, it is said, by a surfeit of lampreys, in December 1135.


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