King Henry I

Standard Name: Henry I, King

Connections

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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...
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...
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...

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2 August 1100: King William II died; Henry I assumed the...

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2 August 1100

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

1101: Maud, first wife of Henry I of England, founded...

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1101

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.

1123: St Bartholomew's Hospital was founded in...

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1123

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

December 1135: King Henry I died and Stephen of Blois assumed...

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December 1135

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

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