Seventh Generation  

32. Constance "Beauclerc"-[18191] (Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹).

Constance married Roscelin de Beaumont-[18192] [MRIN:6156].

The child from this marriage was:

   49 F    i. Ermengarde de Beaumont-[18193] .

Ermengarde married King William the Lyon of Scotland-[18194] [MRIN:6157].

41. Earl Robert de Caen de Mellent-[18095] (Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born about 1090 in Caen, Calvados, France and died on 10-31-1147 in Bristol, England about age 57.

Robert married Mabel FitzHamon-[18096] [MRIN:6110] in 1109. Mabel was born in 1090 and died in 1157 at age 67.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 50 M    i. Earl William FitzRobert-[18097] was born on 11-23-1116 in Gloycestershire, England and died on 11-23-1183 at age 67.

44. Earl of Cornwall Rainald de Dunstanville-[18168] (Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born c1110 in Dunstanville, Kent, England and died on 7-1-1175 in Chertsey, Surrey at age 65.

General Notes: Reginald, earl of Cornwall.

Rainald married Beatrice FitzRichard-[18207] [MRIN:6164] in 1135. Beatrice was born in 1114 in Cardinan, Cornwall and died in 1162 at age 48.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 51 F    i. Beatrice de Vaux-[18208] was born in 1149 in Stoke, Devonshire, England and died on 3-24-1217 at age 68.

45. Queen Matilda Adelaide of England-[18089] (Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born on 8-5-1102 in Winchester, England and died on 9-10-1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine Maritime, Normandy at age 65.

General Notes: Born 1102, London
Died Sept. 10, 1167, near Rouen, Fr.

Also called Maud, German Mathild, consort of the Holy Roman emperor Henry V and afterward claimant to the English throne in the reign of King Stephen.

She was the only daughter of Henry I of England by Queen Matilda and was sister of William the Aetheling, heir to the English and Norman thrones. Both her marriages were in furtherance of Henry I's policy of strengthening Normandy against France. In 1114 she was married to Henry V; he died in 1125, leaving her childless, and three years later she was married to Geoffrey Plantagenet, effectively count of Anjou.

Her brother's death in 1120 made her Henry I's sole legitimate heir, and in 1127 he compelled the baronage to accept her as his successor, though a woman ruler was equally unprecedented for the kingdom of England and the duchy of Normandy. The Angevin marriage was unpopular and flouted the barons' stipulation that she should not be married out of England without their consent. The birth of her eldest son, Henry, in 1133 gave hope of silencing this opposition, but he was only two when Henry I died (1135), and a rapid coup brought to the English throne Stephen of Blois, son of William I the Conqueror's daughter Adela. Though the church and the majority of the baronage supported Stephen, Matilda's claims were powerfully upheld in England by her half brother Robert of Gloucester and her uncle King David I of Scotland. Matilda and Robert landed at Arundel in September 1139, and she was for a short while besieged in the castle. But Stephen soon allowed her to join her brother, who had gone to the west country, where she had much support; after a stay at Bristol, she settled at Gloucester.

She came nearest to success in the summer of 1141, after Stephen had been captured at Lincoln in February. Elected “lady of the English” by a clerical council at Winchester in April, she entered London in June; but her arrogance and tactless demands for money provoked the citizens to chase her away to Oxford before she could be crowned queen. Her forces were routed at Winchester in September 1141, and thereafter she maintained a steadily weakening resistance in the west country. Her well-known escape from Oxford Castle over the frozen River Thames took place in December 1142.

Normandy had been in her husband's possession since 1144, and she retired there in 1148, remaining near Rouen to watch over the interests to her eldest son, who became duke of Normandy in 1150 and King Henry II of England in 1154. She spent the remainder of her life in Normandy exercising a steadying influence over Henry II's continental dominions.

Matilda married Duke Geoffrey Plantagenet "the Fair"-[18088] [MRIN:6106] in 6-1128 in Le Mans Cathedral. Geoffrey was born on 8-24-1113 in Anjou, France and died on 9-7-1151 in Le Mans, France at age 38.

General Notes: Born Aug. 24, 1113
Died Sept. 7, 1151, Le Mans, Maine [France]

Also called Geoffrey Plantagenet, by name Geoffrey The Fair, French Geoffroi Plantagenet, or Geoffroi Le Belcount of Anjou (1131–51), Maine, and Touraine and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England through his marriage, in June 1128, to Matilda (q.v.), daughter of Henry I of England. On Henry's death (1135), Geoffrey claimed the duchy of Normandy; he finally conquered it in 1144 and ruled there as duke until he gave it to his son Henry (later King Henry II of England) in 1150.

Geoffrey was popular with the Normans, but he had to suppress a rebellion of malcontent Angevin nobles. After a short war with Louis VII of France, Geoffrey signed a treaty (August 1151) by which he surrendered the whole of Norman Vexin (the border area between Normandy and Île-de-France) to Louis.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 52 M    i. King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"-[18085] was born on 3-5-1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France and died on 7-6-1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France at age 56.

   53 F    ii. Agnes Plantagenet-[19139] was born in 1130 in LeMans, France and died in 1192 in Anyore, England at age 62.

   54 M    iii. Geoffrey "Mantell" Plantagenet VI-[19140] was born on 6-3-1134 in Rouen, France, died on 7-27-1157 in Nantes, France at age 23, and was buried in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France.

   55 M    iv. Guillaume Plantagenet-[19141] was born on 7-22-1136 in Argentan, Orne, France, died on 1-30-1164 in Rouen, France at age 27, and was buried in Notre Dame, Rouen, France.

   56 F    v. Emma Plantagenet de Normandie-[19142] was born in 1138 in Normandie, France.

Matilda next married Holy Roman Emporer Henry de Normandie V-[18784] [MRIN:6448]. Henry died in 1125.