The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

William son of Robert

Also known as: William · Family: Normans · Role: son of the Earl Robert of Normandy · First appears: A.D. 1124–1126

Life events

  • 1124 · William took the younger daughter of Fulke, Earl of Anjou, to wife.(A.D. 1124–1126)
    • “This same William had taken to wife the younger daughter of Fulke, Earl of Anjou”

A.D. 1124–1126

  • parent: Robert of Normandy “All this hostility was on account of the son of the Earl Robert of Normandy, named William.”
  • enemies with King Henry “and drove his son William unjustly out of Normandy.”

A.D. 1127–1128

  • elder kin: King Henry “for to have help against his nephew William”
  • lord / consecrator: King Henry “And the King of France brought William, the son of the Earl of Normandy, and gave him the earldom”
  • enemies with King Henry “the king did it for to have the alliance of the Earl of Anjou, and for to have help against his nephew William.”

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