King Henry I

Standard Name: Henry I, King

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Literary Setting	Anna Maria Mackenzie	The story opens in the civil war for the English crown between Stephen and EmpressMatilda or Maud . (Mackenzie calls the empress Maud, while for her it is Stephen's wife who is Matilda.) Mackenzie...
Textual Features	Henrietta Rouviere Mosse	The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin murders Ethelred 's son Alfred Ætheling at Guildford Castle; Henry I 's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120...
Textual Production	Ngaio Marsh	NM published in England another detective novel with upper-class ambience, Surfeit of Lampreys, which had already appeared in the USA under the title Death of a Peer. A lamprey is an eel-like fish...

King William II died; Henry I assumed the throne of England on 5 August 1100.

Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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Maud , first wife of Henry I of England, founded St Giles' Hospital at St-Giles-in-the-Fields, near London, to care for forty lepers.

Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.

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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

St Bartholomew's Hospital was founded in London by Rahere , a courtier of Henry I and canon of St Paul's Cathedral.

Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.

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Moore, Norman. The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Church in London. H. Milford/Oxford University Press, 1923.

King Henry I died and Stephen of Blois assumed the throne of England.

Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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