Henry the First.
HENRY Beauclerc, the youngest son of the Conqueror, was horn at Selby in Yorkshire, in 1070, and became King of England on the fall of his brother William Rufus. His coronation was solemnized 5th Aug. 1170. He m. 1st in 1102, MATILDA, dau. of Malcolm III. King of Scotland, by Margaret, his wife, sister and heir of Edgar Atheling, grandson of EDMUND IRONSIDE King of England; and by her bad a son and a dau. viz.: WILLIAM, who was drowned on his passage from Normandy in 1120, being then aged 18 He had married Sybilla, dau. of Fulk, Count of Anjou, but left no issue. MAUD, born in 1104, who m. 1st, the Emperor Henry IV., but by him, who died in 1126, had no issue; and 2ndly, in 1127, the young and gallant GEOFFREY PL4NTAGENET, then only 16 years of age, son of Foulk V. Count of Anjou, by Ermengard, his wife, dau. and heir of Helias, Count of Maine. By this celebrated Prince, the Empress Maud, who united in her veins the blood of the Anglo-Saxon, with that of the Norman Sovereigns, left at her decease, 10th Sept. 1167, three sons, and one dau. viz.: HENRY, who ascended the throne of England as second of his name, Geoffrey, Earl of Nantes, who d. in 1157. William, Earl of Poictou, who d. in 1163. Emma, who m. ])avid, Prince of North Wales, younger son of Owen Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, and was mother of an only dau. and heir, GWENLLIAN, who m. Griffith, younger son of Cadwygan, Lord of Nannau, younger son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys, and bad a dau. and heir HUNYDD, wife of SANDDE HARDD, Lord of Morton, ancestor, by her, of the Powells of Horsley, extinct baronets, and of Llewelyn ap Ynyr o’lal, patriarch of the great house of LLOYD of Bodiris, co. Denbigh, of which that of LLOYD of Gloster, in the King’s County is a scion.