Maud De Dunstanville, [Countess]

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Countess of Meullent.

Maud married Robert De Beaumont, [Count] 1164, Of, Cornwall, England. Robert (son of Waleran Count Of Meulan, [Earl] and Agnes De Montfort, [Countess]) was born Abt 1129, Of, Meulan, Normandy, France; died Sep 1207, Palestine. [Group Sheet]

1. Peter Harcourt was born Abt 1136, Of, Beaumont, France.
2. Joan Harcourt was born Abt 1138, Of, Beaumont, France.
3. Waleran De Mellento was born Abt 1165, Of, Meulan, Ile De France, France; died Vp, Palestine.
4. Piers De Beaumont, [Dean] was born Abt 1167, Of, Meulan, Normandy, France; died Sep 1203.
5. Mabel De Beaumont, [Countess] was born Abt 1169, Of, Meulan, Normandy, France; died Aft 24 Apr 1204.
6. Henry De Mellento was born Abt 1171, Of, Meulan, Ile De France, France; died Dy.
7. Agnes De Beaumont was born Abt 1171, Of, Meulan, Normandy, France.
8. Robert De Beaumont was born Abt 1171, Of, Meulan, Normandy, France.

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Earl of Cornwall.

Rainald married Beatrice Fitzwilliam, [Countess] Abt 1134, Of, Cornwall, England. Beatrice (daughter of William Fitzrichard) was born Abt 1113, Of, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet]

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Countess of Cornwall.

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Henry I "Beauclerc" King Of England succeeded his brother, William II, in 1100.
Henry helped unite the Saxons and Normans in England. To gain the favor of his
Saxon subjects, he married Matilda, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and his
Saxon wife Margaret.

During his reign, Henry worked to restrain the growing power of the barons. He
promoted the Norman system of centralized rule and gave the royal courts greater
authority. His wars against rebellious nobles in France helped start a feeling
of English nationalism.
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Reference:
"The World Book Encyclopedia", 1968, p H178.

Henry — Sibyl Corbet. Sibyl (daughter of Robert Corbet, [Sir Knight]) was born Abt 1076, Of, Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died Aft 1155. [Group Sheet]

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Also known as Adela and Lucy.

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William I "The Conqueror" King Of England, Duke of Normandy was the first
Norman king of England. He inherited Normandy at the age of eight. During his
youth, there were many disorders. At the age of 20, he put down a great
rebellion at the battle of Val-es-dunes, which he won with the aid of his lord,
King Henry of France. From that time on, William ruled Normandy with an iron
hand.

In 1051, William visited England. King Edward the Confessor granted him the
succession to the English throne as his nearset adult heir. In 1064, Harold,
Edward's brother-in-law, was shipwrecked on the Norman coast and was taken
prisoner. He promised to support William's claim to the throne in return for
his freedom. But when Edward died in 1066, Harold obtained the succession on
the basis of a deathbed grant by Edward and election by the nobles and prelates
of England.

William immediately invaded England. His expedition had the pope's blessings,
because William was expected to depose the Anglo-Saxon archbishop of Canterbury
and introduce ecclesiastical reforms. Before William could sail, the king of
Norway invaded northern England. King Harold hurried north and defeated the
Norwegian invaders at Stamford Bridge. William landed before Harold could
return to defend the coast. The Normans destroyed the Anglo-Saxon army and
killed Harold at the Battle of Hastings.

On Christmas Day, 1066, William was crowned king William then suppressed local
rebellions. He took lands from those who resisted him, and gave them to his
followers to hold in return for their military service to him. To emphasize
the legitimacy of his crown, William confirmed the laws of Edward the Confessor
and retained all the powers of the Anglo-Saxon monarchy. He levied Danegeld,
the only national tax on landed property in all of Europe at that time. At
Salisbury in 1086, he made all the landholders, even the vassals of his barons,
swear allegiance directly to him as king.

William was devout, firm in purpose, and unchanging in gaining his ends. His
greatest monument is Domesday Book, an exhaustive survey of the land, the
principal landholders, the farm population, and the material and financial
resources of his realm.

Buried in Abbey of St Stephen, Caen, Calvados, France
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Reference:
"The World Book Encyclopedia", 1968, p W258-259

William married Matilda Countess Of Flanders, [Queen] 1052, Castle Of, Angi, Normandy, France. Matilda (daughter of Baldwin V Count Flanders and Adele (Alix) Princess France) was born Abt 1030, Of, Flanders, France; died 27 Oct 1083, , Caen, Calvados, France; was buried Chrchholytrinity, Caen, Calvados, France. [Group Sheet]

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Queen of England

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