Norman ansestors were the Vikings.Hubris-a favorite word of the Greeks: arrogance that provokes the God's to anger.The Púca (also Pooka, Phouka, Púka, Glashtyn, Gruagach) is a creature of Irish and Welsh myth. It is one of the myriad of fairy (faery) folk, and, like many faery folk, is both respected and feared . The Púca is an adroit shape changer, Etaine, Celtic goddess, on the Isle of Avalon, where Aurthur was brought to have his wounds healed. Glastonbary now built on itWilliam the Conquorer (conquored Herald, the Saxon, who ruled for a short time after Edward the Confesser) died of a stomach injury from his saddle horn. He was so infected that he didn' fit in his tomb and when a knight pushed on him to get him in he exploded."Henry I was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders and was born between May, 1068 and May, 1069 probably at Selby in Yorkshire. He was named Henry after his mother's maternal uncle, King Henry I of France. On the death of his father, Normandy was bequeathed to his eldest son, Robert Curthose, England was left to the third son, William Rufus (a second son, Richard, had been killed whilst hunting in the New Forest) and to the youngest, Henry, he left a large sum of money. Henry seized England's crown on the death of his brother, William Rufus, (Red William, a homosexual) He had been present on the hunting expedition in the New Forest which resulted in Rufus' death, either by accident or design and left abruptly and in indecent haste to seize the treasury at Winchester. The finger of suspicion has been pointed at Henry of complicity in his brother's death, Rufus was at the time refusing to sanction Henry's plans to marry the (half Saxon) Scottish Princess Edith. Henry I was crowned at Westminster on 1st August, 1100.Although he had many illegitimate children, Henry had only three children by his wife, Edith or Mathilda. Two sons, William, known as the Atheling, for his descent from the ancient Saxon Royal House and Richard. His daughter Matilda, or Maud, had been married in political alliance to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, in childhood.Tragedy struck when Henry's only remaining legitimate son, William, on returning from campaign in Normandy, was drowned in the English Channel in the wreck of the White Ship. William had got away in a lifeboat but went back for his illegitimate sister.After the death of her husband the Emperor, he recalled his daughter, by now known as the Empress, to England. He named her as his heiress and made the barons swear fealty to her. Matilda was ordered reluctantly into a marriage with the fifteen year old Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of the Count of Anjou, a son, the future Henry II was born.After Henry's death, despite his oath of alliegiance, the throne was seized by his nephew Stephen. Nineteen years of Civil War were to follow as Stephen and Matilda became locked in a bitter struggle for possession of the crown. In in 1153, a compromise was reached in the Treaty of Wallingford. By its terms, Stephen was to retain the crown for the remainder of his lifetime, whereupon it would revert to Matilda's son, Henry and his heirs.King Stephen died of an apoplexy, the following year and was succeeded by Henry's grandson, Henry II, who became the the first of the great Plantagenet dynasty.Although he had only three children by his wife, Edith of Scotland, (daughter of King Malcolm) Henry I had more illegitimate children than any other British monarch, numbering twenty-four in all:-
