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Also known as: Henri Beauclerc, Henry Beauclerc
Written by
C. Warren Hollister
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of The Impact of the Norman Conquest and others.
C. Warren Hollister
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Byname:
Henry Beauclerc (“Good Scholar”)
French:
Henri Beauclerc
Born:
1069, Selby, Yorkshire, England
Died:
December 1, 1135, Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy (aged 66)
Title / Office:
king (1100-1135), England
House / Dynasty:
house of Normandy
Notable Family Members:
father William I
mother Matilda of Flanders
daughter Matilda
son Robert, Earl of Gloucester
son William the Aetheling
brother William II
brother Robert II
sister Adela
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Visitors Can See the View From Henry I's Tower at Corfe Castle for the First Time in Nearly Four Centuries • Dec. 7, 2024, 12:20 AM ET (Smithsonian Magazine)
Henry I’s luxurious tower at Corfe Castle reopens to visitors after 378 years • Dec. 2, 2024, 10:42 AM ET (The Guardian)

Henry I (born 1069, Selby, Yorkshire, England—died December 1, 1135, Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy) was the youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror’s sons, who, as king of England (1100–35), strengthened the crown’s executive powers and, like his father, also ruled Normandy (from 1106). Henry was crowned at Westminster on August 5, 1100, three days after his brother, King William II, William the Conqueror’s second son, had been killed in a hunting accident. Duke Robert Curthose, the eldest of the three brothers, who by Norman custom had succeeded to his father’s inheritance in Normandy, was returning from the First Crusade and ...(100 of 948 words)

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