The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

William son of King Henry

Also known as: William · Family: English · Role: son of King Henry · First appears: A.D. 1110–1116

Life events

  • 1115 · The head men in Normandy did homage and fealty to King Henry's son William.(A.D. 1110–1116 · 📍 Normandy)
    • With: King Henry
    • “he contrived that all the head men in Normandy did homage and fealty to his son William, whom he had by his queen.”
  • 1119 · William married the daughter of the Earl of Anjou.(A.D. 1117–1122 · 📍 Normandy)
    • With: King Henry Queen Matilda Earl of Anjou
    • “This year went William, the son of King Henry and Queen Matilda, into Normandy to his father, and there was given to him, and wedded to wife, the daughter of the Earl of Anjou.”
  • 1120 · William, Richard, Richard, Earl of Chester, and Ottuel were drowned.(A.D. 1117–1122)

A.D. 1110–1116

  • parent: King Henry “he contrived that all the head men in Normandy did homage and fealty to his son William, whom he had by his queen.”

A.D. 1117–1122

  • parent: King Henry “This year went William, the son of King Henry and Queen Matilda, into Normandy to his father, and there was given to him, and wedded to wife, the daughter of the Earl of Anjou.”
  • parent: Queen Matilda “This year went William, the son of King Henry and Queen Matilda, into Normandy to his father, and there was given to him, and wedded to wife, the daughter of the Earl of Anjou.”
  • siblings with Richard son of King Henry “And in this expedition were drowned the king's two sons, William and Richard, and Richard, Earl of Chester, and Ottuel his brother, and very many of the king's household, stewards, and chamberlains, and butlers, and men of various abodes; and with them a countless multidude of very incomparable folk besides.”

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