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Constantine I Unknown1,2
M, #18405, Deceased, b. about 836, d. 877
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Parents
| Father | Kenneth I Macalpin (b. about 810, d. 6 February 860) |
Family:
| Son | Donald II Unknown+ (b. about 862, d. 900) |
Main Events
| Residence | Constantine I Unknown resided CausantÃn mac Cináeda (Constantine I of Scotland) (died 877) was a son of Cináed mac AilpÃn (Kenneth I of Scotland). Although tradition makes CausantÃn a king of Scots, it is clear from the entries in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Annals of Ulster, that he was king of the Picts. He became king in 862 on the death of his uncle Domnall mac AilpÃn (Donald I of Scotland). In 866, the Chronicle states that Pictland was ravaged by Vikings led by AmlaÃb Conung. The Chronicle claims that AmlaÃb was killed by CausantÃn that year, but this is either incorrectly dated, or a different AmlaÃb (Olaf) is intended as the Irish annals make it clear that AmlaÃb Conung was alive long after 866. A date of 874 has been proposed for this event. In 870, AmlaÃb Conung and Ãmar captured Alt Clut, chief place of the kingdom of Strathclyde. The king, Artgal of Alt Clut, was among the many captives. The Annals of Ulster say that Artgal was killed 'at the instigation of CausantÃn mac Cináeda' in 872. Artgal's son Run was married to a sister of CausantÃn. In 875, the Chronicle and the Annals of Ulster again report a Viking army in Pictland. A battle, fought near Dollar, was a heavy defeat for the Picts; the Annals of Ulster say that 'a great slaughter of the Picts resulted'. Although there is agreement that CausantÃn was killed fighting Vikings in 877, it is not clear where this happened. William Forbes Skene read the Chronicle as placing CausantÃn's death at Inverdovat (by Newport-on-Tay), which appears to match the Prophecy of Berchán. The account in the Chronicle of Melrose names the place as the 'Black Cave' and John of Fordun calls it the 'Black Den'. CausantÃn was buried on Iona. CausantÃn's son Domnall (Donald II of Scotland) and his descendants represented the main line of the kings of Alba and later Scotland.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18702 |
| Marriage | Constantine I Unknown was married about 833.1 |
| Birth | He was born about 836 in Scotland.1 |
| His father Kenneth I Macalpin died on 6 February 860. | |
| His son Donald II Unknown was born about 862 in Scotland. | |
| Death | Constantine I Unknown died in 877, at age ~41, in Indervovat, Fife, Scotland.2,1 |
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Thomas Power
M, #18406, Deceased
| Consanguinity | 2nd great-grandfather of Adrian John Snelson |
Parents
| Father | Unknown Power |
Family: Ellena O'Brien (b. about 1827)
| Son | Thomas Power+ |
| Daughter | Mary Power (b. about 1845) |
| Daughter | Brigida Power+ (b. 1852, d. 5 May 1905) |
| Person References | Ancestors Lifespan, Father, Mother, Spouse Ellena O'Brien 1827 - Family Tree Blood Line My Family Tree Thomas Power |
| Last Edited | 21 June 2025 |
Main Events
| Marriage | Thomas Power and Ellena O'Brien were married. |
| User Reference Number | He; 23834 |
| Religious Affiliation | He was affiliated with Roman Catholic. |
| His daughter Mary Power was born about 1845 in Ireland. | |
| His daughter Brigida Power was born in 1852 in Ireland. | |
| Occupation | He was a He is identified as the father of Brigida Power on the Dungarvan Roman Catholic Parish Register at his daughter's wedding - a witness is Jane Power., Fisherman in 1871. |
Henry I The Fowler Unknown1,2
M, #18414, Deceased, b. 876, d. 2 July 936
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Parents
| Father | Otto Unknown (b. about 851, d. 30 November 912) |
| Mother | Hedwiga Unknown (b. about 846, d. 24 December 903) |
Family 1: Hatheburg Unknown
Family 2: Matilda Unknown (b. about 895, d. 14 May 968)
| Daughter | Hedwige Unknown+ (b. about 910, d. 10 May 965) |
| Daughter | Gerberga Unknown+ (b. about 913, d. 5 May 984) |
Main Events
| Burial | Henry I The Fowler's remains were buried in Abbey of Quedlingburg.1 |
| Residence | He resided See notes.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18577 |
| Note | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Residence Henry I the Fowler (German: Heinrich der Finkler or Heinrich der Vogler; Latin: Henricius Auceps) (876 – 2 July 936) was the duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death. First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to be the founder and first king of the medieval German state, known until then as East Francia. An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet 'the Fowler' because he was allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king. Born in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, daughter of Henry of Franconia and Ingeltrude and a great-great-granddaughter of Charlemagne. In 906 he married Hatheburg, daughter of the Saxon count Erwin, but divorced her in 909, after she had given birth to his son Thankmar. Later that year he married St Matilda of Ringelheim, daughter of Dietrich, count in western Saxony (Westfalia). St Matilda bore him three sons and two daughters and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized. Henry became duke of Saxony upon his father's death in 912. An able ruler, he continued to strengthen Saxony, frequently in conflict with his neighbors to the South, the dukes of Franconia. In 918 Conrad I, king of the East-Francian Empire and duke of Franconia, died. Although they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia, before he died Conrad had recommended Henry as his successor as king. Conrad's choice was conveyed by Duke Eberhard of Franconia, Conrad's brother and heir, at the Reichstag of Fritzlar in 919. The assembled Franconian and Saxon nobles duly elected Henry to be king. Henry refused to be anointed by a high church official - the only king of his time not to undergo that rite – allegedly because he did not wish to be king by the church's but by the people's acclaim. Duke Burchard II of Swabia soon swore fealty to the new king, but duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit until Henry invaded Bavaria in 921. Henry regarded the kingdom as a confederation of tribal duchies rather than as a feudal kingdom and saw himself as primus inter pares. Instead of seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and as his successors had attempted, Henry allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings. In 925 he defeated Giselbert, duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine), and brought that realm, which had been lost in 910, back into the German kingdom as the fifth tribal duchy (the others being Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria). Allowing Giselbert to remain in power as duke of Lotharingia, Henry arranged the marriage of his daughter Gerberga of Saxony to his new vassal in 928. Henry was an able military leader. In 924 Henry paid a tribute to the Magyars (Hungarians), who had repeatedly raided Germany, and thereby secured a ten-year truce so that he could fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force. During the truce with the Magyars, Henry conquered the Havelli and the Daleminzi in 928 and put down a rebellion in Bohemia in 929. When the Magyars began raiding again, he led an army of all German tribes to victory at the battle of Riade in 933 near the river Unstrut, stopping their advance into Germany. He also pacified territories to the north, where the Danes had harried the Frisians by sea. The monk and historian Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler. Henry incorporated into his kingdom territories held by the Wends, who together with the Danes had attacked Germany, and also conquered Schleswig in 934. Henry died of a cerebral stroke on 2 July 936 in his palatium in Memleben, one of his favourite places. By then all German tribes were united in a single kingdom. Henry I is therefore considered the first German king and the founder of the eventual Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation). He has sometimes been considered as Holy Roman Emperor, Henry I. His son Otto succeeded him as Emperor. His second son, Henry, became duke of Bavaria. A third son, Brun (or Bruno), became archbishop of Cologne. His son from his first marriage, Thankmar, rebelled against his half-brother Otto and was killed in battle in 936. After the death of her husband Duke Giselbert of Lotharingia, Henry's daughter Gerberga of Saxony married King Louis IV of France. His youngest daughter Hedwige of Saxony married Duke Hugh (the Great) of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France. Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin (1850). There are indications that Heinrich Himmler imagined himself the reincarnation of the first king of Germany. |
| His wife Hatheburg Unknown died. | |
| Birth | He was born in 876 in Germany.3,1 |
| His mother Hedwiga Unknown died on 24 December 903. | |
| Marriage | Henry I The Fowler Unknown and Hatheburg Unknown were married in 906.3,1 |
| Marriage | Henry I The Fowler Unknown and Matilda Unknown were married in 909.2,1 |
| His daughter Hedwige Unknown was born about 910. | |
| His father Otto Unknown died on 30 November 912. | |
| His daughter Gerberga Unknown was born about 913. | |
| Death | Henry I The Fowler Unknown died on 2 July 936, at age ~60.3,1 |
| His wife Matilda Unknown died on 14 May 968. |
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Richard Edward Clothier
M, #18415, Deceased, b. about 1879, d. 1 June 1957
| Consanguinity | 1st cousin 2 times removed of Adrian John Snelson |
Parents
| Father | George Clothier (b. 1841, d. 1924) |
| Mother | Hannah Benyon (b. about July 1840, d. 6 October 1912) |
Family: Alice Annie Head (b. about 1878)
| Daughter | Mary Irene Clothier (b. about 1910) |
| Person References | Anne Jones George Benyon 1783-1850 |
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| User Reference Number | Richard Edward Clothier; 23705 |
| Birth | He was born about 1879. |
| Occupation | He was an upholsterer in 1901. |
| Marriage | Richard Edward Clothier and Alice Annie Head were married on 16 August 1908 in St Saviour's, St George's Square, Pimlico. |
| His daughter Mary Irene Clothier was born about 1910 in Brighton, Sussex. | |
| His mother Hannah Benyon died on 6 October 1912 in Hanover Square, London. | |
| His father George Clothier died in 1924. | |
| Death | Richard Edward Clothier died on 1 June 1957, at age ~78, in Lewes, East Sussex, England. |
Census
| Label and Year | Manual |
|---|---|
| Census 1901 | Richard Edward Clothier Id #18,415 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1901 at St George Hanover Square, London; Address: 6, Worcester Street Witness Role: Original Documents, Source and Citations here |
| Census 1911 | Richard Edward Clothier Id #18,415 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1911 at Brighton, Brighton, Sussex; Address: 16 Tillstone St Principal Role Principal Role Original Documents, Source and Citations here |
Matilda Unknown1,2
F, #18423, Deceased, b. 1101, d. 10 September 1167
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Parents
| Father | Henry I Beauclerc Unknown (b. 1068, d. 2 December 1135) |
| Mother | Matilda Unknown (b. about 1079, d. 1 May 1118) |
Family 1: Henry V Unknown (b. 11 August 1081, d. 22 May 1125)
Family 2: Geoffrey V Unknown (b. 24 August 1113, d. 7 September 1151)
| Son | Henry II Curmantle Unknown+ (d. 11 June 1183) |
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| Also Known As | Matilda Unknown was also known as Maud Unknown. |
| Also Known As | She was also known as Matilda Unknown. |
| Also Known As | She was also known as Matilda Unknown. |
| Residence | She resided See notes.1 |
| User Reference Number | She; 18432 |
| Note | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Residence Empress Matilda (February, 1101 — September 10,1168; Saxon form Maud or Maude) was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. She was married to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and after his death to Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, by whom she became the mother of Henry II of England. She is sometimes called Maud to differentiate her from the many other Matildas of the period. Matilda is the Latin form of the name 'Maud'. She was the first ever female ruler of the Kingdom of England. Matilda was born in February 1101 to Henry I of England and his wife Maud of Scotland. Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Margaret was a daughter of Edward the Exile and granddaughter of Edmund II of England. Her birth is generally said to have taken place at Winchester, though recent research by the late John Fletcher (1990) suggests it may have occurred at the Royal palace at Sutton Courtenay in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). When she was seven years old, Matilda was betrothed to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and was sent to the Holy Roman Empire in 1111 to begin her training as his consort. Matilda and Henry were married at Worms on January 7, 1114 in a splendid ceremony. In March 1116 Matilda and Henry visited Rome and Tuscany, and she acted as Regent in his absence. The Imperial couple allegedly had no surviving offspring; Hermann of Tournai, however, states that Maud bore a child that lived only a short while (some have theorized that this child may have in fact been Thomas Becket, subsequently raised by his foster parents: Gilbert Becket and Rosea or/and Matilda de Caen). When Henry died in 1125, he left Matilda a 'childless' widow of twenty-three. Her brother William Adelin had perished several years before in the wreck of the White Ship, leaving Matilda the only legitimate heir to the English throne. Matilda returned to the Kingdom of England, where her father named her his heir, and arranged another marriage for her. In 1127, she was married again, at Le Mans in Anjou, to Geoffrey of Anjou, who was eleven years her junior. He was nicknamed 'Plantagenet' from the broom flower (planta genista) which he took as his emblem, hence the name of the line of English kings descended from him. He was at this time Count of Maine and heir to his father Fulk V of Anjou. The marriage was not a happy one, and Matilda separated from him and returned to her father. She returned to Geoffrey in 1131, and they were reconciled. They produced three sons, the eldest of whom, Henry, was born on March 5, 1133. The birth of her second son, Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, in 1134 was difficult and Matilda nearly died in childbed. Her father King Henry came to visit and took 'great delight' in his grandsons. King Henry and Geoffrey quarreled, and so when her father died on December 1, 1135 in Normandy, Matilda was with Geoffrey in Anjou. On the death of her father in 1135, Matilda expected to succeed to the throne of England, but her cousin, Stephen of Blois, usurped the throne, breaking an oath he had previously made to defend her rights. The civil war which followed was bitter and prolonged, with neither side gaining the ascendancy for long, but it was not until 1139 that Matilda could command the military strength necessary to challenge Stephen within his own realm, including battles at Beverston Castle and other sites. Stephen's wife was another Matilda: Matilda of Boulogne, Countess of Boulogne. During the war, Matilda's most loyal and capable supporter was her half-brother, Robert of Gloucester. Matilda's greatest triumph came in April 1141, when her forces defeated and captured King Stephen, who was made a prisoner and effectively deposed. Although she now controlled the kingdom, Matilda never styled herself queen but took the title 'Lady of the English'. Her advantage lasted only a few months. By November, Stephen was free, and a year later, the tables were turned when Matilda was besieged at Oxford but escaped to Wallingford, supposedly by fleeing across the snow-covered land in a white cape. In 1141 she had escaped Devizes in a similarly clever manner, by disgusing herself as a corpse and being carried out for burial. In 1147, Matilda was finally forced to return to France, following the death of Robert of Gloucester, her half-brother and strongest supporter. All hope was not lost. Matilda's son, Henry (later, Henry II of England), was showing signs of becoming a successful leader. Although the civil war had been decided in Stephen's favour, his reign was troubled. In 1153, the death of his son Eustace, combined with the arrival of a military expedition led by Henry, led him to acknowledge the latter as his heir by the Treaty of Wallingford. Matilda retired to Rouen, in Normandy, during her last years, where she maintained her own court. She intervened in the quarrels between her eldest son Henry and her second son Geoffrey, but peace between the brothers was brief. Geoffrey rebelled against Henry twice before his sudden death in 1158. Relations between Henry and his youngest brother, William, were more cordial, and William was given vast estates in England. Archbishop Thomas Becket refused to allow William to marry the Countess of Surrey and the young man fled to Matilda's court at Rouen. William, who was his mother's favourite child, died there in January 1164, reportedly of disappointment and sorrow. She attempted to mediate in the quarrel between her son Henry and Thomas Becket, but was unsuccessful. Despite her tenure as 'Lady of the English', Matilda was never loved by the people of her native land, who found her too foreign and haughty. She spoke three languages: French, German, and Latin. Even though she gave up hope of being crowned Queen in 1141, her name always preceded that of her son Henry, even after he became king. Matilda died at Rouen, and was buried in the cathedral there; her epitaph reads: 'Here lies the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry.' The civil war between supporters of Stephen and the supporters of Maud is the background for the popular 'Brother Cadfael' books by Ellis Peters, and the films made from them starring Sir Derek Jacobi as that rare Benedictine. Another popular series of light historical fiction is that of Jean Plaidy. The third book of her Norman Trilogy, Passionate Enemies tells the story of Stephen and Matilda. The novel 'When Christ and His Saints Slept' by Sharon Penman tells the story of the civil war. It is also an important part in the storyline of Ken Follett's most popular novel 'The Pillars of the Earth'. The story is told romance-novel style (and highly inaccurately) in Ellen Jones's 'The Fatal Crown'. |
| Birth Reg | She; Geoffrey V Unknown; 4th cousins 1 removed1 |
| Birth | She was born in 1101 in London, England.2,1 |
| Marriage | Matilda Unknown and Henry V Unknown were married on 7 January 1114.2,1 |
| Her mother Matilda Unknown died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. | |
| Her husband Henry V Unknown died on 22 May 1125 in Utrecht, Netherlands. | |
| Marriage | Matilda Unknown and Geoffrey V Unknown were married on 22 May 1127 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.2,1 |
| Her father Henry I Beauclerc Unknown died on 2 December 1135 in St Denis-le-Fremont, Fance. | |
| Her husband Geoffrey V Unknown died on 7 September 1151 in Chateau-du-Loir, Pays de la Loire, France. | |
| Death | She died on 10 September 1167, at age ~66, in Rouen, Normandy, France.2,1 |