William Clito

1102 - 1128  (25 years)

• Name	William Clito
  Born	25 Oct 1102	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Jul 1128  [1]
  Buried	Abbey of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France   [1]
  Person ID	I3629	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Curthose,   b. in or Aft 1050,   d. Abt 3 Feb 1134, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales  (Age ~ 83 years)
  Mother	Sibyl of Conversano,   d. 1103
  Married	Sep 1100	Italy   [2]
  Family ID	F954	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sibyl of Anjou,   b. 1112,   d. 1165  (Age 53 years)
  Married	1123  [1]
  Annulled	1124  [1]
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F1571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Joanna of Montferrat
  Married	1127  [1]
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2015
  Family ID	F5430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "The death by drowning of William Atheling, King Henry's only legitimate son, on 25 November 1120 transformed William Clito's fortunes. He was now the obvious male heir to England and Normandy, and a significant party of Norman aristocrats adopted his cause. Henry's problems became worse, as his son William Atheling had been betrothed to Matilda of Anjou, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou and Fulk wanted her dowry, several castles and towns in Maine, returned, which Henry refused. Fulk in turn betrothed his daughter Sibylla to William Clito giving him the county of Maine, between Normandy and Anjou, as her dowry. King Henry astutely appealed to canon law, however, and the marriage was eventually annulled in August 1124 on the grounds that the couple were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S160] Wikipedia. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.