William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus...

and its Latinized form "Adelinus" (used to refer to his first cousin, William Adelin). Both terms signified "man of royal blood" or, the modern equivalent...

aboard, a butcher from Rouen, survived. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of Henry I of England, his half-siblings...

1066–1087 William II, 1087–1100 (not Duke of Normandy) Robert II, 1087–1106 (not King of England) Henry I, 1100–1135; 1106–1135 William Adelin, 1120 (not...

signed by her. Matilda and Henry had two children: Empress Matilda and William Adelin; through her daughter, she is the ancestor of all subsequent English...

narrowly escaped drowning with Henry I's son, William Adelin, in the sinking of the White Ship in 1120; William's death left the succession of the English...

rival Lothair of Supplinburg. Matilda's younger and only full brother, William Adelin, died in the White Ship disaster of 1120, leaving Matilda's father and...

many of William's less popular policies. He married Matilda of Scotland and they had two surviving children, Empress Matilda and William Adelin; he also...

sons-in-law, making him the maternal grandfather of Empress Matilda, William Adelin and Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. All three of them were prominent...

he arranged for his daughter Matilda of Anjou to marry Henry's son William Adelin. Fulk went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1119 or 1120, and became...

Anjou, also known as Mahaut (c. 1111 – 1154) was married in 1119 to William Adelin, son and heir apparent of Henry I of England. Matilda was the daughter...

accept William Adelin as Duke of Normandy. William was officially invested with the duchy in 1120, even though King Louis continued to support William Clito's...

conflict was a war of succession precipitated by the accidental death of William Adelin (the only legitimate son of King Henry I) who had drowned in the White...

arrangements, but gave permission for his sons William Adelin and Richard, as well as the young nobles in William's entourage, to travel on it instead. According...

age and some 35 years older than her. Henry's only legitimate son, William Adelin, had died in 1120, which had prompted Henry to marry again. He hoped...

king. The succession to Henry I was altered by the death of his son, William Adelin. Left without male heirs, Henry took the unprecedented step of making...

1114) and William Adelin (a Norman-French variant of Ætheling). But in 1120, England was thrown into a succession crisis when William Adelin died in the...

decisive win by the English led to Louis’ accepting Richard’s half-brother William Adelin as Duke of Normandy. In 1120, Richard became betrothed to Amice, the...

II, Count of Maine (d. 1151) Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154), who married William Adelin, the son and heir to Henry I of England. After his death in the White...

survivors from a crew of 500. 498 1120  England White Ship – Ship carrying William Adelin, heir to the English Throne and the Duchy of Normandy, and more than...

Latinised Germanic form, Adelin(us) was used in the name of the only legitimate son and heir of Henry I of England, William Adelin, who drowned in the White...

noblemen and 18 were noblewomen. William Adelin, duke of Normandy, sole legitimate son of King Henry I of England. William, rescued in the only skiff available...

ruthless yet effective king, but after the death of his only male heir William Adelin, he persuaded his barons to recognise his daughter Matilda as heir....

the Conqueror, William the Bastard or William I. Henry I left no legitimate male heirs, his son William Adelin having died in the White Ship disaster...

multiple princes William Adelin (1103–1120), eldest son of Henry the I England Prince William of Denmark (1687–1705) Prince William, Duke of Gloucester...

November 1120 of William Adelin, the son of his niece Edith and heir to Henry I. Edgar was still alive in 1125, according to William of Malmesbury, who...

to Louis VII of France were Marie and Alix. He had one elder brother, William (d. 1156), and his younger siblings included Matilda, Richard, Geoffrey...

throne. 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England. 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem...

in the English Channel, off Barfleur. Henry I's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 (many of them Anglo-Norman nobility) who drown. The Pseudo-Ingulf's...

the Saracens and Byzantines, and an expedition on behalf of their duke, William the Conqueror, led to the Norman conquest of England at the Battle of Hastings...