Her marriage to Henry I in 1100 united the Saxon and Norman lines. This took place in Westminster Abbey (the Norman church) on 11th November. Their son William was drowned in the wreck of the White ...

Arguably the most important feature of Henry I’s early reign was his marriage to Matilda, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, on November 11, 1100. Contemporaries argued that while their ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

Following this, Henry decided that his daughter, Matilda, would be his heir and announced her marriage to Geoffrey of Anjou. Geoffrey was the Count of Anjou – a region in France which bordered ...