BAUDOUIN married Princess of France ADAELE ALIX about 1028 in Paris, Seine, ÃŽle-de-France, France. ADAELE (daughter of The Pious King of France ROBERT CAPET, II and CONSTANCE) was born in 1003 in France; died on 8 Jan 1079 in Messines, France; was buried in Messines, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Holy Trinity Abbey/Eglise De La Sainte Trinitbe

MATILDA married King of England, Conqueror of Normandie WILLIAM FitzWILLIAM, I in 1053 in Normandy, France. WILLIAM (son of Duke of Normandie ROBERT FitzWILLIAM, I and HARLETTE De FALAISE) was born on 14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Normandie, France; was christened in 1066 in Norman Conquest; died on 7 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Near Rouen, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in Abbaye De St Etienne, Caen, Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sybilla. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
St Edmondsbury

Constance married Count Alan Fergant of Brittany, IV in 1086 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Blois Stephen Henry. Stephen died in 1102. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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There was never any question of Gundred being an illegitimate daughter of William I, but rath er it was a case of a fraudulent claim that she was a legitimate daughter. The reason peopl e used to think that Gundred was a daughter of William the Conqueror was because the monks o f Lewes forged some charters which stated that. But I don't think anyone now seriously mainta ins that these charters are authentic.

Gundred is known to have been a sister of Gerbod, who was briefly earl of Chester under Willi am the Conqueror. It's clear they were members of a Flemish family who were advocates of St B ertin's Abbey in St Omer, and who held Oosterzele and Scheldewindeke, although the genealog y isn't altogether clear.

Chris Phillips

Gundred was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, earl of Chester, and possibly a
daughter of Gerbod, hereditary advocate of the abbey of St. Bertin at St.
Omer. Many sources name her as the daughter of William the Conqueror and
his wife Matilda, and she has also been put forth as a daughter or
stepdaughter of William the Conqueror. This, however, was shown to be false
many years ago. She died in childbirth.

David C. Douglas contends in "William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon
England" (Berkeley: Univ of Calif Press, 1964): "The view once held that
Matilda was already married [to Gerbod] when William sought her hand, and
was then the mother of a daughter, Gundrada, later the wife of William de
Warenne, has now been conclusively disproved by the researches of Chester
Waters and Sir Charles Clay. There is no reason to suppose that Gundrada
was the daughter of either William or Matilda."

DD says: "Sister of Gerbod the Fleming,advocate of Saint-Bertin and earl of
Chester in 1070, and Frederick. Wife of William I de Warenne. She died in
childbirth on 27 May 1085 and was buried in Lewes priory (Mon. Ang. v,12).
EYC viii,pp. 6-7; A. J. Farrington, 'A note on Gherbod the Fleming, Earl of
Chester', Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society li (1984)."

Hope this helps. Polly Zashin

PLM: There is some doubt in my mind, however. Per your earlier assistance to
me; I do now have "The Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes",
vol. I, ed. L. F. Salzman, and published by the Sussex Record Society in
1032. There is a lengthy charter by William Warrene nearly six pages in
length; so I will not quote it's entirety, but this bit is curious.

Page 3:

"..., I have given for the welfare of my soul and that of Gundrada my wife
and for the soul of my lord King William who brought me into England and by
whose license I caused the monks to come and who confirmed my former gift,
and for the welfare of my lady Queen Maud the mother of my wife and for the
welfare of my lord King William his son after whose coming to England I made
this charter and who made me Earl of Surrey,..." UNQ

PLM: It is quite clear from this charter, that Gundrada is the daughter of
Queen Maud, and the lack of a reference to William I being the father of
Gundrada is highly significant. If I were to rely solely on this evidence, I
would have to conclude that Gundrada was NOT the daughter of William I at
all.

People have referred to forged charters from Lewes, but what is the basis of
these assertions, and which references discuss these "supposedly proven
forgeries"? The premise of such an accusation appears to be up side down, in
relation to the above charter. It seems illogical to forge a document that
makes Gundrada the daughter of the Queen, as opposed to the King of England;
which would essentially diminish her social standing, instead of elevating
it, as most forgeries tend to do?

Cheers,
Phil

GUNDRED married WILLIAM De WARREN, I before 1077 in Normandy, France. WILLIAM was born in Abt. 1055 in Bellencombe, Seine Inferieure, France; died on 24 Jun 1088 in Lewes, Sussex, England; was buried in Priory Of Lewes, Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SYBILLA CORBET. SYBILLA was born on Yes, date unknown; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

HENRY married Princess of Scotland MATILDA EDITH ATHLING on 06 Aug 1100 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. MATILDA (daughter of I King of Scotland MALCOLM CEANMOR DUNKELD, III and Queen of Scotland MARGARET AETHLING) was born in 1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland; died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, London, London, England; was buried in Jun 1118 in Church of St. Peter, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

HENRY married Adeliza of Louvain on 29 Jan 1122 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. Adeliza (daughter of Duke Geoffrey Lower Lorraine) was born about 1105 in Louvain, Belgium; died about 23 Apr 1151 in Afflighem, Flanders; was buried in Afflighem, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sybil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adelicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes De Sulli. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Matilda of Boulogne in 1125 in Westminster, England. Matilda (daughter of Count Eustace of Boulogne, III and Princess of Scotland Mary) was born on Yes, date unknown in Boulogne; died on 3 May 1152 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England; was buried in Faversham Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

WILLIAM married ISABEL De VERMANDOIS before 1118 in France. ISABEL (daughter of HUGUES and ADELLE De VERMANDOIS) was born in Abt. 1085 in Valois, Isle De France, France; died on 13 Feb 1131 in England; was buried in Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Maud Mabel Fitzhammon about 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. Maud (daughter of Robert Fitzhamon and Sibyl De Montgomery) was born about 1094 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: FERGUS De GALLOWAY. FERGUS was born in Abt. 1090 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in 1161 in Abbey Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King of Scotland Alexander, I. Alexander (son of I King of Scotland MALCOLM CEANMOR DUNKELD, III and Queen of Scotland MARGARET AETHLING) was born in 1078 in Scotland, United Kingdom; died on 23 Apr 1124 in Sterling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was buried on 25 Apr 1124 in Dunfermline Abbe, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[royalfam.ged]

Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England, *was* her father's heiress.

Henry had 22-24 bastards and a legitimate son, William The Aetheling, who was
drowned in the Wreck of the White Ship on 25 November 1125 ---- ten years
before Henry's death.

So, Henry I had no surviving legitimate son to succeed to the throne.
Matilda, his legitimate daughter, had married Henry V, The Holy Roman Emperor
and was styled as The Empress Matilda in English, as she preferred. Her
husband, Henry V died in 1125 of cancer. The couple had no issue.

Matilda returned to England after the death of her husband and Henry I began
to groom her for succession to the throne. She was widowed and childless as
well as pretty well Germanised [read arrogant and pretentious, in English
eyes], having first gone to the Continent when she was eight years old and
having married Henry V when she was 11.

The British nobles and bishops did not particularly cotton to this
Jennie-foreigner as their future queen ---- but Henry I did his best to secure
their oaths of support that they would loyally defend her claims if she
outlived her father and he left no legitimate son.

Matilda married Geoffrey 'le Bel' comte d'Anjou, Touraine et Maine in 1127.

Now she was Brunhilde with a frog husband in the minds of many of the stalwart
British nobles and bishops.

Henry I died in 1135 without fathering a legitimate son. His death led to a
disputed succession just as had the deaths of the two previous Norman kings of
England, William I 'The Conqueror' and William II 'Rufus'.

When Henry I died on 1 Dec 1135, of a surfeit of lampreys as some say, Matilda
was out of pocket on the Continent.

Stephen, a grandson of William The Conqueror, quickly seized the initiative
and crossed to England to seize the crown where he was accepted as King by the
worthies of London, whose trading connections with Stephen's lands in Boulogne
helped to win them to his side.

Stephen pressed on to Winchester, where his brother, Bishop Henry of
Winchester, persuaded an initially reluctant Archbishop of Canterbury to crown
Stephen as King, the custodian of the treasure to hand over the keys, and the
magnates who were present to accept him as monarch.

Some of the nobles and clerics seem to have abandoned Matilda because they
construed their oath to Henry I to have held only if Henry did not give his
daughter Matilda in marriage to anyone outside the Kingdom without consulting
them.

A Great Civil War ensued when Matilda tried to fight back and reclaim the
throne in 1139. This Civil War lasted until 1153 when Stephen finally agreed
to allow Matilda's son Henry to succeed him on the throne as Henry II
'Curtmantle'. Yes, the one who was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Richardson. Henry II also inherited his father Geoffrey's lands and titles.
Geoffrey was quite a dashing figure, the Antonio Banderas of his day.

MATILDA married Holy Roman Empr Henry, V on 07 Jan 1114 in Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Henry was born in 1086; died on 23 May 1125 in Utrecht. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

MATILDA married Count of Anjou GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, V on 22 May 1127 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, Anju, France. GEOFFREY (son of King Jerusalem, Count Anjou FOULQUES, V and Countess Du Maine ERMENGARDE HELIE) was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Château-Du-Loir, Château, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabella. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]