Henry I de Normandie

Abt 1068 - 1135  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Henry I de Normandie  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1068	Selby, Yorkshire, England
  Christening	5 Aug 1100	Selby, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Dec 1135	Saint-Denis-en-Lyons, Normandy
  Burial	Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I1814	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Guillaume I le Conqu de Normandie,   b. 14 Oct 1024, Ch d. Abt Sep 1087, Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F651	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matilda of Scotland,   b. Abt 1080, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 38 years)
  Children	1. Matilda of England,   b. Abt 1102, England d. 10 Sep 1167, Rouen, Normandie (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2011

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Henry Beauclerc was the fourth son of William I (the Conqueror). As Henry I, King of England he was called the 'Lion of Justice' as he gave England good laws even if the punishments were ferocious. Henry died on 1 December 1135 of food poisoning from eating "a surfeit of lampreys" (of which he was excessively fond) at Lyons-la-For [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S534] Website, http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/KingsandQueens.htm (Reliability: 3). [S534] Website, http://www.mathematical.com/englandhenrybeauclerc.html (Reliability: 3). Founded in the 7th century by Dagobert I on the burial place of Saint Denis, a patron saint of France, the church became a place of pilgrimage and the burial place of the French Kings, nearly every king from the 10th to the 18th centuries being buried there, as well as many from the previous centuries. (It was not used for the coronations of kings, this role being designated to the Cathedral of Reims; however, queens were commonly crowned there.) "Saint-Denis" soon became the abbey church of a growing monastic complex. In the 12th century the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and decorative features that were drawn from a number of other sources. In doing so, he is said to have created the first truly Gothic building.[1] The basilica's 13th century nave is also the prototype for the Rayonnant Gothic style, and provided an architectural model for cathedrals and abbeys of northern France, England and other countries.