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defeating his brother Robert, its lawful Duke, at the Battle of Tinchebrai.
    Henry I married firstly , on 11 November 1100, at Westminster Abbey:
    Matilda
    She was christened Edith, but adopted the name Matilda upon her marriage as it was thought the Norman barons might not respect a queen with a Saxon name. She was the daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scotland, by St Margaret, a great-granddaughter of Ethelred II, and her marriage to Henry I represented the union of Norman and Saxon royal lines. Matilda was born probably in the autumn of 1080, and was crowned Queen Consort on 11 or 14 November, 1100, at Westminster Abbey. She died on 1 May, 1118, at the Palace of Westminster, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
    Issue of marriage:
    1   Euphemia
    She was perhaps the child born in late July or early August, 1101, at Winchester, who died young.
    2   Adelaide
    She adopted the name Matilda upon her marriage. ( see here , under Henry II).
    3   William
    He was born before 5 August, 1103, at Winchester. Styled ‘Atheling’, he was designated Duke of Normandy in 1120. He drowned on 25 November, 1120, when the White Ship sank off Barfleur in Normandy.
    William married, in June, 1119, at Lisieux in Normandy:
    Matilda
    She was christened Alice, but adopted the name Matilda upon her marriage, although she is sometimes called Isabella. She was the daughter of Fulk V, Count of Anjou, by Aremburga, daughter of Hélias I, Count of Maine, and sister to Sybilla, wife of William Clito, grandson of William I. She was born between c .1107 and 1111 in Anjou. After her husband drowned, she became in c. 1121 a nun at Fontevrault Abbey in France, where she was elected Abbess in 1148. She died at Fontevrault Abbey in 1154, and was perhaps buried there. There was no issue of her marriage to William.
    4   Richard
    He drowned with his brother William on 25 November, 1120, when the White Ship sank off Barfleur in Normandy. Some sources state that the Richard who drowned in the White Ship was Henry I’s natural son, and that his legitimate son Richard died in infancy. However, both Robert of Gloucester and the Saxon Chronicle state that Queen Matilda’s son Richard drowned in the White Ship.
    Henry I married secondly , on 29 January (or, less probably, 2 February), 1121, at the Chapel Royal in Windsor Castle:
    Adeliza
    Alternatively known as Adelicia, Adela, Adelaide, Adeline or Alice, she was the daughter of Geoffrey VII, Count of Louvain, Duke of Lower Brabant and Lower Lorraine, by Ida, daughter of Albert III, Count of Namur and Countess of Namur in her own right. There are no records of Adeliza’s date of birth, but she was described as ‘nubile’ in 1120, thus she was perhaps born between c .1103 and c .1106. She was crowned Queen Consort on 30 January (or, less probably, 3 February), 1121, at Westminster Abbey. After the death of Henry I, she married secondly William d’Albini, Earl of Arundel ( d .1176), after 1136 and before September, 1139, and had issue:
    1 William, 2nd Earl of Arundel (before 1150–1193); he married Matilda, daughter of James de St Hilary du Harcourt, and had issue.
    2  Reyner.
    3  Henry.
    4  Geoffrey.
    5  Alice ( d .1188); she married firstly John, Count of Eu, Lord of Hastings ( d .1170), and had issue. She married secondly Alvred de St Martin ( d . after 1189).
    6  Olivia. She died young, and was buried in Boxgrove Priory, Sussex.
    7  Agatha. She died young, and was buried in Boxgrove Priory, Sussex.
    Adeliza became a nun at Affligem Abbey, near Alost in South Brabant, in c .1149/50. She died on 23/24 March (or 23 April), 1151 at Affligem Abbey, and was buried there.
    Henry I also had the following illegitimate issue :
    By Sybilla (also known as Adela or Lucy), daughter of Sir Robert Corbet of Alcester, Co. Warwick, and afterwards wife of Herbert FitzHerbert ( d . by 1165):
    1  Robert Fitzroy of Caen, Earl of Gloucester (1090/95–1147); he married Mabel ( d .1157), daughter of Robert FitzHamon,