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    William Clito (25 October 1102 – 28 July 1128) was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully...
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    The Latin term Clito (meaning "noble") was sometimes used instead: for example in the case of William Adelin's cousin, William Clito. See Ætheling, S...
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    Duke of Normandy 1087-1106 William Clito, 1102-1128, Count of Flanders 1127-1128 Richard of Normandy, 1054-1070 William II of England, King of England...
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    Robert Curthose (category Children of William the Conqueror)
    Crusade; they had one child: William Clito, was born 25 October 1102 and became heir to the Duchy of Normandy. William Clito was unlucky all his life; his...
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    Flanders, but another cousin, William Clito, became count instead with the support of King Louis VI of France. William's politics and attitude towards...
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    Henry I of England (category Children of William the Conqueror)
    and Fulk V of Anjou, who promoted the rival claims of Robert's son, William Clito, and supported a major rebellion in the Duchy between 1116 and 1119...
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    century, a loyal supporter of Robert Curthose and protector of his son William Clito. His support of the latter eventually brought him into conflict with...
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    successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation. Eventually, a truce was declared, and William died the following...
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    husband's mistress, Agnes de Ribemont. Robert and Sibylla had one son: William Clito (1102—27 July 1128), Count of Flanders. The spelling Sibylla (after...
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  • Flanders from passing to his nephew William Clito, another contender and second cousin of William of Ypres, as William Clito also laid claim to Henry's Duchy...
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    and marched into Flanders with an army and urged the barons to elect William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, who had been disinherited of Normandy by his...
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    Robert Curthose and William of Mortain spent the rest of their lives in captivity. Robert Curthose had a legitimate son, William Clito (1102–1128), whose...
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    in favour with Henry. William Clito, the only son of Robert Curthose, was King Louis VI of France's preferred choice, but William was in open rebellion...
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  • Abbess of Fontevrault. Sibylla of Anjou (d. 1165), married in 1121 to William Clito, and then (after an annulment in 1124) to Thierry, Count of Flanders...
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    the region of Normandy until at least 928. He was succeeded by his son William Longsword in the Duchy of Normandy that he had founded. The offspring of...
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    Richard was born to William Longsword, princeps (chieftain or ruler) of Normandy, and Sprota, a Breton concubine bound to William by a more danico marriage...
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    in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders. Matilda of Anjou (c.1111–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after...
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    William Adelin, who drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120. It was also sometimes translated into Latin as clito, as in the name of William Clito...
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  • daughter of Fulk V of Anjou and Ermengarde of Maine, In 1123, she married William Clito, son of the Norman Robert Curthose and future Count of Flanders. Sibylla...
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    he became more prominent in Henry's court. In 1110, Curthose's son William Clito escaped along with Helias of Saint-Saens, and afterwards Warenne received...
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    the duchy in 1120, even though King Louis continued to support William Clito's claim to the honour. This battle is the result of a fortuitous encounter...
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    to Henry's heir William Adelin, who drowned in the wreck of the White Ship. Fulk then married his daughter Sibylla to William Clito, heir to Henry's...
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    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...
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    Montferrat. They had: Joanna, who married William Clito, Count of Flanders, in 1127, and was widowed a year later William V, Marquis of Montferrat Matilda, wife...
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    when William II conquered England, becoming King William I, the title Duke of Normandy was often held by the King of England. In 1087, William died and...
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    dispute. William Clito prevailed, but was soon fraught with revolts. Godfrey intervened on behalf of Theodoric of Alsace, who prevailed against Clito. Godfrey...
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    married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI, to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving...
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    Sibylla, to William Clito, son of Henry I's older brother, Robert Curthose. Henry I had the marriage annulled to avoid strengthening William's rival claim to...
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  • Louis VI of France. Renier and Gisela had: William V, who succeeded to the march. Joanna, who married William Clito, Count of Flanders, in 1127, and was widowed...
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  • Elias II, Count of Maine (†1151) Mathilde († 1119) m William Adelin Sibylle († 1119) m William Clito m Thierry of Alsace Baldwin III of Jerusalem († 1163)...
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