Family: William "The Conqueror"/Matilda (F3113)

• Father | Male William "The Conqueror", I, King Of England, Duke of Normandy

  
  

  Born	Abt 1027	Falaise, Falaise, , Basse-Normandie, France
  Died	9 Sep 1087	Rouen, , Haute-Normandie, France
  Buried		Caen, , Basse-Normandie, France
  Married	1053  [1, 2, 3]
  Father	Robert "The Magnificent", I, Duke Of Normandy | F3114 Group Sheet
  Mother	Herleve, Of Falaise | F3114 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Matilda, Of Flanders

  
  

  Born	1032
  Died	3 Nov 1083
  Buried
  Father	Baldwin, V, Count Of Flanders | F6800 Group Sheet
  Mother	Adela, Of France | F6800 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Henry "Beauclerc", I, King Of England

  
  

  Born	Between May 1068 and May 1069	, , , England
  Died	1 Dec 1135	Lyons-La-Forãet, , Haute-Normandie, France
  Buried		Reading Abbey, Reading, , Berkshire, England
  Spouse	CANMORE Matilda, Of Scotland, Queen Consort | F3109
  Married	11 Nov 1100
  Spouse	Adeliza, Of Louvain | F5188
  Married	2 Feb 1121

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Robert "Curthose", II, Duke Of Normandy

  
  

  Born	Abt 1052
  Died	10 Feb 1134
  Buried		Cathedral Church Of St Peter And The Holy And Indivisible Trinity, Gloucester, , Gloucestershire, England

  
  

  Child 3 | Male William "Rufus", II, King Of England

  
  

  Born	Abt 1060
  Died	2 Aug 1100
  Buried		Winchester, , Hampshire, England

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Adela, Countess Of Blois

  
  

  Born
  Died	Abt 1137
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: From The Age of the Crusaders, Vol. 6 by James M. Ludlow, p. 21: When William of Normandy, afterwards the Conqueror of England, learned that Baldwin of Flanders had refused him his daughter Matilda in marriage, the chronicle says "he forced his way into the countess's chamber, found the daughter, took her by the tresses, dragged her about the room, and trampled her under his feet." The young lady does not seem to have been grieved by the violence of the wooing, but rather to have acquired a better appreciation of the lordly qualities of her future husband. We may be permitted to doubt the accuracy of this story, but the fact that it was so early chronicled and generally believed atteset the popular taste. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S166] A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great Britain, Antoine Franðcois Bertrand Moleville, (London, England: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812.), p. 124, 125. (Reliability: 3), 5 Apr 2011. [S85] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis and Kaleen E. Beall, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.), p. 118. (Reliability: 3), 12 Apr 2011. [S623] History of the Markham Family, David Frederick Markham, (London, England: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1854.), p. 21. (Reliability: 4), 4 May 2013.