Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William Clito

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Name William Clito Born 25 Oct 1102 Rouen, 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 | Ancestor of TWK 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
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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]
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