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SCOTLAND Matilda of (I829) [Female] b. 1 JUN 1079 Fife, Scotland - d. 1 MAY 1118 London, London, England
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Title: Web: International, Find A Grave Index
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
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Title: Monarchs of England
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Title: Monarchs of England
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Title: Web: International, Find A Grave Index
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Title: Monarchs of England
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King of England, surnamed, on account of his superior education, Beauclerc, was the youngest son of William the Conqueror, and was born at Selby, in Yorkshire, in 1068. Jealousies and dissensions early broke out between him and his elder brothers, Robert and William (Rufus), and on the sudden mysterious death of William in the New Forest, in 1100, Henry, who was hunting with him, immediately seized the crown and the public treasures, his brother Robert being not yet returned from the crusade. To strengthen his hold on the affections of his subjects, he granted a charter re-establishing the laws of the Confessor, abolished the curfew, professed a reform in his own character and manners and married the Princess Maud, daughter of Malcolm, King of Scotland, and niece of Edgar Atheling, thus uniting the Norman and Saxon races. When Robert invaded England in 1101, war was prevented by negotiation and the grant to Robert of a pension of 3000 marks. The same year began the quarrel between the King and Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, respecting investitures.
Henry, ambitious of the crown of Normandy, invaded that country in 1105, and took Caen, Bayeux, and several other places. He completed the conquest in the following year by the defeat and capture of Robert at the battle of Tenchebrai. In 1109 the Princess Matilda (Maud) was betrothed to the Emperor Henry V., but in consequence of her youth, the marriage was deferred for several years. Troubles in Normandy and in Wales, and war with the King of France, occupied Henry in the next few years. In 1118 he lost his Queen, Maud, and two years later his only legitimate son, the Prince William, who, with his retinue, perished by shipwreck, on the passage from Normandy to England. It is said that the King was never seen to smile again. In 1121 he married Adelais, or Alice, daughter of Geoffrey, Duke of Louvain, and on the failure of his hope of offspring, he had his daughter, the Empress Maud, then a widow, acknowledged
heiress to the throne. Henry died at Rouen, from the effects of gluttony, December 1, 1135, having been absent from England nearly two years and a half.
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
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Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
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Title: Global, Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and othe
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Title: Monarchs of England
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Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current (in Dutch
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Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current (in Dutch
Matilda of Flanders was born circa 1031, the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adele of France, who was the daughter of Robert II of France and Constance of Arles. She was also a descendant of King Alfred the Great and the old Saxon House of Wessex, through Alfred's daughter Aelfthryth who married Baldwin II of Flanders.
Her mother, Adele of France, had previously been married for a short time to William's uncle, Richard III, Duke of Normandy. Adele was an exceptionally religious woman, later referred to as "Adele the Holy", she had a great interest in Baldwin V's church-reform politics and was behind her husband's founding of several collegiate churches, she passed this reverance of Christianity to her daughter, Matilda, who received an excellent education, overseen by her mother.
Described by contemporaries as having delicate features and a graceful figure, Matilda spent her early years in Lille in Northern France. Rumours at the time stated that Matilda had fallen in love with the English ambassador to Flanders, a Saxon named Brihtric, who declined her advances. Many years later while she was acting as Regent for William I in England, she confiscated Brihtric's lands and had him thrown into prison in revenge for this insult, where he is said to have died.
Tradition states that when Duke William of Normandy sent representatives to her father's court to request Matilda's hand in marriage, she retorted by proudly informing the representative that she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard. (William was the illegitimate son of 'Robert the Devil', Duke of Normandy and Arlette, daughter of Fulbert, a tanner of Falaise).
Furious on receiving this response, William rode to Bruges, where he confronted Matilda on her way to church, he pulled her off her horse and threw her down in the street in front of her attendants and rode off. An alternative version of the legend states that he rode to her father's court in Lille, marched defiantly into her room and threw her to the ground in her room and hit her. Whereupon it is said Matilda refused to marry anyone but William.
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Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current (in Dutch
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
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Title: Web: International, Find A Grave Index
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Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
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Title: U.K. Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
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Title: Monarchs of England
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Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current (in Dutch
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Title: Monarchs of England
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Title: Web: International, Find A Grave Index
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Title: Monarchs of England
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King of England, was the natural son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and was born at Falaise, in 1027. He was brought up at the court of the King of France, and succeeded to the duchy at the age of eight. But during his minority there were frequent revolts of the nobles, and his authority was not fully established for many years. On the death of Edward the Confessor, King of England, William made a formal claim to the crown, alleging a bequest in his favour by Edward, and a promise which he had extorted from Harold. His claim being denied he at once prepared for an invasion of England, effected a landing at Pevensey, September 28, 1066, while Harold was engaged in opposing the Norwegians in the north, and fortified a camp near Hastings. The
decisive battle of Hastings (or, more properly, Senlac) was fought on Saturday, October 14, 1066 Harold was defeated and slain, and the Norman Conquest was commenced. William's rival, Edgar Atheling, was supported by some of the leading men for a short time, but they all made sub mission to William at Berkhampstead, and on the following Christmas-day he was crowned at Westminster by Aldred, archbishop of York, a riot occurring, in which some lives were lost and some houses burnt.
The first measures of the new king were conciliatory, but served merely for a show for a short time. The inevitable conflict was not long deferred. Early in 1067 William went to Normandy, leaving the government of his new dominions in the hands of Odo, bishop of Bayeux, and William Fitz-Osbern. Tidings of revolt in various quarters recalled him, and be was occupied through most of his reign in the conquest of the country. Of the military events the most terribly memorable is his campaign in the north in 1069 when he mercilessly devastated the whole district beyond the Humber with fire and slaughter, so that from York to Durham not an inhabited village remained, and the ground for more than sixty miles lay bare and uncultivated for more than half a century afterwards. The order established was that of death; famine and pestilence
completing what the sword had begun. This campaign was followed in 1071 by the attack on the fortified camp of Hereward, the resolute and unconquered chieftain, in the Isle of Ely.
The settlement of the country was as cruel as the conquest. The English were dispossessed of their estates, and of all offices both in church and state; William assumed the feudal proprietorship of all the lands, and distributed them among his followers, carrying the feudal system out to its fullest development; garrisoned the chief towns, and built numerous fortresses; re-established the payment of Peter's-pence, indignantly refusing, however, to do homage to the Pope; and converted many districts of the country into deer parks and forests. The most extensive of these was the New Forest in Hampshire, formed in 1079. He ordered a complete survey of the land in 1085, the particulars of which were carefully recorded, and have come down to us in the ‘Domesday Book’.
According to tradition the ‘Curfew Bell’ was introduced by the Conqueror; and the attempt was made to supersede the English by the Norman French language, which was for some time used in official documents. In his latter years William was engaged in war with his own sons, and with the King of France; and in August, 1087, he burnt the town of Mantes. Injured by the stumbling of his horse among the burning ruins, he was carried to Rouen, and died in the abbey of St. Gervas, 9th September. He was buried in the cathedral of Caen, where a monument was erected to him by his son William II. This monument perished during the Huguenot wars. William married, while
Duke of Normandy, his cousin Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, by whom he had four sons, two of whom, William and Henry, became kings of England, and several daughters. The building of the Tower of London was begun by William I. about 1080. Battle Abbey was also built by him in commemoration of his victory at Hastings. A statue of William I. was erected at Falaise, in 1853. ‘Domesday Book’ has been recently reproduced by the photozincographic process, under the direction of Sir H. James.(year =1867)
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Title: U.S. Obituary Collection, 1930 - 2015
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Author: Genealogy of Myers Family Tree
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Title: U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 & 2
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Title: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
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Title: U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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Title: Genealogy of Beverly Myers Starnes Family Tree
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Title: 1910 United States Federal Census
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Title: California, Death Index, 1940-1997
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Title: U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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Title: California Birth Index, 1905-1995
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Title: California Birth Index, 1905-1995
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