the daughter of Foulk, Earle of Aniou; and the same yeere hee was made Duke of Normandy, doing his homage for the same to Lewes the Grosse, King of France; and receiued the homage and oathes of the Nobility of that Country: but in his returne for England, hee was vnfortunately drowned neere vn∣to Barbfleet vpon the twenty sixt of Nouember, the yeere of Grace 1120. and eighteenth of his owne age, without any issue, to the great griefe of his Father.
(63) Maud the daughter of King Henry, and of Queene Maud his first wife, was borne the fourth yeere of her Fathers raigne. She was the second wife of the Emperour Henrie the fourth, espoused at sixe yeeres of age, and at eleuen with great solemnity was married and crowned his Empresse at Mentz in Germany, 6. Ianuary, Anno 1114. the ninth of her husbands, and foureteenth of her Fathers Raignes. Shee was his wife twelue yeeres, and suruiued him without any issue of him; & comming into England a widdowe, she had fealty sworne vnto her by the Nobility, and was remaried to Geffrey Plantaginet Earle of Aniou, sonne of Foulke King of Ierusalem, vpon the third of Aprill, and yeere of Grace 1127. by whom shee had issue, Henry, the Second, King of England, Geffery Earle of Nantes in Britanie, and Wil∣liam who was called Earle of Poyto: she was his wife twenty three yeeres, and suruiuing him also continu∣ed a widdowe the last seuenteene yeeres of her life, which she ended in the City of Roan the tenth of Sep∣tember, 1167. the foureteenth of the raigne of King Henry her sonne, and was buried in the Abbey of Bee in Normandy.
(64) Richard a second sonne to King Henry, and Queene Maud, by the testimony of Geruasius the Monke of Canterbury, who maketh Maud their el∣dest Child, William the second; and lastly, Richard; and then (saith he) she left bearing: but Malmsbury saith, she had but two Children, one of each sexe.
(65) Eufem also another daughter, and fourth Child (by Hector Boetius the Scottish Historian) is said to be borne vnto the Beauclearke by Queene Maud; the credite of the two last, I leaue to the reporters, who onely thus name them without any further re∣lation.
His Naturall Issue.
(66) Robert, the naturall sonne of King Henry, was Earle of Gloucester, and married Ma•…•…l daugh∣ter and heire of Robert Fitzhamon Lord of Glamor∣gan, by whom hee had issue William Earle of Glouce∣ster, Richard Bishop of Bayon, Roger Bishop of Wor∣cester, and Maud the wife of Randolph Gernon, the mother of Hugh Keueliot Earle of Chester, and Rich∣ard his brother: Earle William married Auis daugh∣ter of Robert Bossu Earle of Leicester, and had issue three daughters and heires of that Earledome, which by Au•…•…s the second of them, in the end descended to Clare Earle of Hertford. This Earle Robert died the last of October, in the twelfth yeare of King Stephen, and was buried at Bristow in the Church of S. Iames, which hee had founded, and his body laide in the midst of the Quire; vnto him William Malmsbury dedicated his Booke called Historia Nouella.
(67) Richard another naturall sonne of King Hen∣ry, was as it seemeth by an ancient Register of the Mo∣nastery at Abington, borne in the raigne of King Wil∣liam Rufus, of the widow of Anskill, a Nobleman of the Country adioining to the said Monastery; and it seemeth hee is that Richard that was drowned in the Norman Seas neere Barbfleet, among the rest of King Henries children.
(68) Raynold the naturall sonne of King Henry, was borne of a daughter vnto Sir Robert Corbet, Lord of Alcester in Warwickeshire, by the gift of the King in fauour of her, who was after married to Henry Fitz-herbert his Chamberlaine. This Raynold was created Earle of Cornwall, and Baron of Castle comb, with consent of King Stephen, and had issue foure Daughters, of whom haue sprung many faire branches.
(69) Robert another of that name, was borne of Edith, the sister of Iue, sonne and daughter of Forne, the sonne of Sigewolfe, both of them great Barons in the North: which Edith afterwards King Henry gaue in marriage to Robert D•…•…lie, Baron of Hook-Norton in Oxfordshire; and with her gaue him the Mannor of Eleydon, in the County of Bucking∣ham, by whom he had issue Henry Doylie Baron of Hook-Norton, who oftentimes mentioneth this Robert in his Charters, euer calling him Robert his brother the Kings sonne.
(70) Gilbert another naturall sonne of King Hen∣ry is named in the additions to the story of William Gemeticensis the Norman Monke, in the Chronicle of that country, written by Iohn Taylor being a Tran∣slator of that worke out of Latine into French; and lastly, in the Treaties betwixt England and France, written in the French tongue by Iohn Tillet, Secreta∣rie to their late King Henry the second, and yet in them, not any other mention is made, but only of his name.
(71) William also a narurall sonne of Henry the King, had giuen vnto him the Towne of Tracie in Normandy; of which hee tooke his surname, and was called William of Tracie: But whether he were the Progenitot of the Tracies, sometime Barons in Deuonshire, or of them that now be of the same sur∣name; or whether Sir William Tracie, one of the foure Knights, that slew Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury, were any of his posterity, is not cer∣tainely reported: nor any thing else of him, more then that hee died a little after his Father, which was in the yeere of Christ, 1135.
(72) Henry another naturall sonne of King Hen∣ry, was borne of the Lady Nesta, daughter of Rees ap Tewdor Prince of South-Wales, who was the Wife of Sir Gerald Windsor, and of Stephen, Con∣stables of the Castles of Pembrooke, and Abertinie in Wales, and Progenitors of the Families of the Fitz-geralds, and the Fitz-Stephens in Ireland; he was borne and breed, and liued, and married in Wales, ha∣uing issue two sonnes, namely, Meiler and Robert, of which Meiler the elder married the daughter of Hugh Lacie, Lord of Methe in Ireland; hee was at the conflict in the Ile of Anglesey, betweene Magnus the sonne of Harold, Harfager King of Norway, and Hugh of Mountgomery, Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury, wherein hee was slain, as some say, with the said Earle, Anno, 1197.
(73) Maude the Naturall daughter of King Henry was Countesse of Perche, and the first wife of Earle Rotroke the first of that name, sonne of Arnolfe de Hesding the first Earle of that County: Shee had issue by him one onely daughter named Magdalen wife to Garcy the fourth King of Nauarre mother of King Sanches, surnamed the wise, from whom all the Kings of Nauarre are descended: Shee died vpon Friday the twenty sixth of Nouember, in the twentith of her Fathers raign and yeere of Grace 1120. being drowned in the Sea with her brother Duke William.
(74) Maude another of that name and naturall daughter of King Henrie, was married to Conan the first of that name surnamed the Grosse, Earle of little Britaine in France, sonne of Earle Alan by Er∣mengard his second wife; by Alan shee had issue Ho∣well, pronounced illegitimate, and disherited by his supposed father Constance, that died without issue, and Bertha the wife of Eudes Earle of P•…•…rohet, mo∣ther of Earle Conan the yonger, who by Margaret sister of William King of Scots had issue Constance ma∣ried to Geffrey sonne of King Henry the second.
(75) Iulian likewise an other naturall daughter of King Henry was married to Eustace the illegiti∣mate sonne of William Lord of Brete•…•…il in Normandy, who was the sonne and heire of William Fitz-Osborne and elder brother of Roger, both Earles of Hereford