Thomas Nonsiglos was born about 1420 in Cornish, England. He died BET 1447 AND 1511.
He had the following children:
M i William Nanseglass
William I King of England [Parents] was born Oct 14 1024 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He died Sep 9 1087 in Corbel, Marne, France. married Matilda of Flanders on 1053.
William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of Robert I, Duke of
Normandy and Herleva, the daughter of a wealthy Falasian. Many
contemporary writers refered to him as William the Bastard. Robert died
in 1035 while traveling through Asia Minor and young William was named
Duke of Normandy. He married Mathilda, daughter of Count Baldwin of
Flanders, who bore him at leas nine children, four of whom were boys.Edward the Confessor, in an effort to gain Norman support while fighting
with his father-in-law Earl Godwin, had promised the thorne to William
the Confessor in 1051. By 1066, however, Edward had reconciled with
Godwin and on his deathbed named the Earl's son Harold as successor th
the crown. William felt cheated and immediately prepared to invade,
insisting that Harold had sworn allegiance to his accession in 1064. He
was prepared fo battle in August of 1066, but the winds were against him
throughout August and most of September prohibiting him and his troops
from crossing the English Channel. This turned out to be an advantage,
however as Harold Hardrada, the King of Norway invaded England and met
Harold Godwinson's forces at Stamford Bridge on September 25, 1066.
Godwinson emerged victorious, but two days after the battle William was
able to land unopposed at Pevensey and spent the next two weeks pillaging
the area and stengthening his position on the beachhead. The victorious
Harold in an attempt to solidify his kingship took the fight to William
and the Normans on Octover 14, 1066 at Hastings. Harold and his brothers
died fighting in the Hastings battle, removing any further organized
resistance to the Normans. The Earls and bishops of the Witan hesitated
in supporting William, but they soon submitted and crowned his William I
on Christmas Day 1066. His kingdom was immediately esigege by minor
uprisings, each one individually crushed by the Normans, until the whole
of England was conquered and united in 1071. William punished rebels by
confiscating their land and giving it to Normans. The Doomsday Book was
commissioned in 1085 as a survey of land ownership to assess property and
establish a tax base; within the regions covered by the Doomsday survey,
only two native English landowners still held their land. William was a
feudal vassal of the King of France and constantly found himself at odds
with King Phillip. In a siege on the town of Mantes in 1087 William was
injured and he died from complications of the wound on September 9, 1087.
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William the ConquerorKing of England and Duke of Normandy.
He was the natural son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, his mother, Herleva, being the daughter of a
tanner of Falaise. In 1035 Robert set out upon a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in which he died. Before
starting he presented to the nobles this child, then seven years old, demanding their allegiance. "He is
little", the father said, "but he will grow, and, if God please, he will mend." In spite of the murder of
three of his guardians, and of attempts to kidnap his own person, the child, after a period of anarchy,
became the ruler of Normandy in his father's place. He seems to have been a youth of clean life and of
much natural piety, while the years of storm and stress through which he passed gave him an endurance
and far-sighted resolution of character which lasted to his life's end. In 1047 a serious rebellion of
nobles occurred, and William with the aid of Henry, King of France, gained a great victory at
Val-ès-Dunes, near Caen, which led, the following year, to the capture of the two strong castles of
Alençon and Domfront. Using this as his base of operations, the young duke, in 1054 and the following
years, made himself master of the province of Maine and thus became the most powerful vassal of the
French Crown, able on occasion to bid defiance to the king himself.Meanwhile William had begun to take a great interest in English affairs. How far his visit to England in
1051 was directly prompted by designs upon the throne, it is impossible to say. It is in any case likely
that his marriage, in spite of the papal prohibition, with Matilda, the daughter of the Earl of Flanders, in
1053, was intended as a check upon the influence exercised in that powerful quarter by Earl Godwin
and his sons. Through the mediation of Lanfranc, the future archbishop, the union was legitimized by
papal dispensation in 1059, but William and his wife consented to found two abbeys at Caen, by way
of penance for their contumacy. Edward the Confessor had been brought up in Normandy, for he was
the nephew of Duke Richard II (d. 1026). All through the reign, the king himself and at least a minority
of his subjects had turned their eyes across the water, realizing that the Continent represented in general
higher religious ideals and higher culture than prevailed at home. Whether any explicit promise of the
succession had been made to the duke may be doubted, but one fact stands out clearly from a mass of
obscure and often conflicting details: that King Harold, about the year 1064, finding himself on Norman
soil, was constrained to take a solemn oath of allegiance to William. Neither can there be much doubt
that this pledge was given with explicit reference to the duke's intention of contesting the English throne.
The repudiation of this oath by Harold at the Confessor's death enabled William to assume the
character of an avenger of perjury. He was probably sincere enough in believing himself constituted by
God champion of the Church, and in obtaining from Pope Alexander II not only a blessing on his
enterprise, but the gift of a specially consecrated banner as for a religious crusade. A century later
Henry II, when projecting his conquest of Ireland, adopted a similar rôle. At the same time it is not now
disputed by impartial historians (e. g. H. C. Davis, or C. Oman) that the claim to establish a better
order of things was in fact justified by the event. "The Norman Conquest", says H. C. Davis, "raised the
English to that level of culture which the continental people had already reached and left it for the
Plantagenets of Anjou to make England in her turn 'a leader among nations'."After the invasion and the decisive battle of Hastings, William at once marched on London, and there
the best and wisest men of the kingdom—for example, such influential prelates as Aldred, Archbishop
of York, and St. Wulstan, Bishop or Worcester—came in and tendered submission. Before the end of
the year the king was crowned by Aldred (to the exclusion of Stigand) in the newly consecrated
abbey-church of Westminster. In 1067 William revisited Normandy, but, owing perhaps in part to the
tactlessness or incapacity of the regents, Odo of Bayeux and William Fitzosborn, he was recalled by an
alarming series of popular outbreaks: first the south-west, with Exeter for a rallying-point, then the
Welsh border, under the Earls Edwin and Morcar, then Northumbria, under Earl Gospatric, to be
followed next year (1069) by a still more formidable rising in the north, assisted by the Danes. William
met these attempts intrepidly, but sternly. In Northumbria, after the second insurrection, he inflicted a
terrible vengeance. The whole country from York to Durham was laid waste, and we learn, for
example, from the Domesday Book, that in the district of Amunderness, where there had been
sixty-two villages in the Confessor's time, there were in 1087 but sixteen, and these with a vastly
reduced population. Neither was this the only instance of such ruthless severity. A terrible penalty was
exacted in other centres of rebellion, and we read not only of a wholesale use of fire and sword, but of
mutilation and blinding in the case of individual offenders. The Conqueror could respect a brave foe,
and he seems, in 1071, to have granted honourable terms to Hereward, the leader of the desperate
resistance in the fen-country. But to Waltheof, after the collapse of the rebellion of the earls in 1075, no
mercy was shown. The motive was probably political, for Lanfranc, who was with him at the last,
pronounced him guiltless of the offence for which he died.Having at last reduced the country to submission, William set to work with statesmanlike deliberation to
establish his government on a firm and lasting basis. He rewarded his followers with large grants of
land, but he was careful to distribute these grants in such a way that the concentration of great territorial
power in the same hands was avoided. The new fiefs recorded in Domesday are vast, but scattered.
Saxon institutions were as far as possible retained, especially when they might serve as a check upon
the power of the great feudatories. For the most part William continued to govern through the sheriffs
and the courts of the shire and of the hundred. The national levy of the fyrd was retained, and it helped
to render the king less dependent upon his vassals. In spite of heavy taxation, the new government was
not altogether unpopular, for the Conqueror had confirmed "the laws of Edward", and the people
looked to him as their natural protector against feudal oppression. The least acceptable part of the
Norman regime was probably the enforcement of the cruel forest laws; but on the other hand, modern
authorities are agreed that the chroniclers of a later age enormously exaggerated the devastation said to
have been caused in Hampshire by the making of the New Forest.As for William's ecclesiastical policy, he seems conscientiously to have carried out a programme of
wise reform. His appointments of bishops mere on the whole excellent. The separation of the secular
and spiritual courts was a measure of supreme and far-reaching importance. The influence of the great
monastic revival of Cluny was now, through Lanfranc, brought to bear on many English foundations. To
the pope, William was ever careful to show himself a considerate and respectful son, even on such
occasions as when he firmly resisted the claim made by Gregory VII to feudal homage. On the other
hand, St. Gregory himself commended the king for the zeal he had shown in securing the freedom of the
Church, and he was content, while such a spirit prevailed, to leave the sovereign practically free in his
appointments to English bishoprics. Altogether Mr. C. Oman does not exaggerate when he tells us that
before the Conquest "the typical faults of the dark ages, pluralism, simony, lax observance of the
canons, contented ignorance, worldliness in every aspect, were all too prevalent in England"; but he
adds that by the Conqueror's wise policy "the condition of the Church alike in the matter of spiritual
zeal, of hard work and of learning, was much improved". In the last years of William's reign a great deal
of his attention was absorbed by the political complications which threatened his Continental dominions
and by the undutiful attitude of his sons. It was in avenging a gibe levelled against him by the King of
France that the Conqueror met with an accident on horseback, which terminated fatally 9 Sept., 1087.
He had an edifying end and died commending his soul to Our Lady, "that by her holy prayers she may
reconcile me to her Son, my Lord Jesus Christ". The Saxon chronicler summed up William's character
well when he wrote: "He was mild to good men who loved God, and stark beyond all bounds to those
who withsaid his will."
Matilda of Flanders [Parents] was born 1031 in Brienze, Normandy, France. She died Nov 3 1083 in Llanthony, P., England. Matilda married William I King of England on 1053.
They had the following children:
M i Henry I King of England
Malcomb III was born WFT Est. 1029-1058. He died WFT Est. 1081-1121. was married was married WFT Est. 1053-1100.
He had the following children:
F i Matilda of Scotland Queen of England
V Baldwin Count of Flanders [Parents] was born WFT Est. 981-1012. He died 1036. V married Adela on 1028.
Other marriages:de France, Adele
Adela [Parents] was born WFT Est. 989-1014. She died WFT Est. 1038-1084. married V Baldwin Count of Flanders on 1028.
They had the following children:
F i Matilda of Flanders
II Robert was born WFT Est. 956-989. He died 1071. II was married was married WFT Est. 979-1027.
He had the following children:
F i Adela
Charles Martel [Parents] was born Apr 2 742. He died Jan 28 813/814. Charles married Hildegarde von Schwaben on 771.
Hildegarde von Schwaben [Parents] was born WFT Est. 734-757. She died WFT Est. 780-829. Hildegarde married Charles Martel on 771.
They had the following children:
M i Louis I,emperor
Pippin III Martel [Parents] was born 714. He died Sep 24 768. Pippin married Berta on WFT Est. 729-757.
Berta was born WFT Est. 702-724. She died 783. married Pippin III Martel on WFT Est. 729-757.
They had the following children:
M i Charles Martel
Childebrand I, Lord of Perracy & Bougy [Parents] was born about 690. He died WFT Est. 734-781. was married was married WFT Est. 715-769.
He had the following children:
F i Hildegarde von Schwaben M ii The Historian , Lord of Perracy & Hesbu
Froto King of Denmark [Parents] was born WFT Est. 767-822. He died 875. was married was married WFT Est. 791-855.
He had the following children:
M i Gorm Enske
Horda Knut , (King of Denmark [Parents] was born WFT Est. 737-794. He died 850. Horda was married was married WFT Est. 760-826.
He had the following children:
M i Froto King of Denmark