Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

William I, King of England

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• • 26th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 29th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 376294504 
  • Father:
  • Robert I of Normandy 
  • Mother:
  • Herleve of Falaise   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1025 
  • Birth Location:
  • Falaise, Normandy, France 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Sep 1087 
  • Death Location:
  • Convent of St Gervais, Rouen, Normandy, France 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Abbey-aux-Hommes, Caen, Normandy, France 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Matilda of Flanders
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1053 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Robert Curthose

  William II, King of England

  Adela of Normandy

  Henry I, King of England (Ahnentafel No:188147252 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka William the Conqueror

    King of the English, Duke of the Normans

• Sources for William I, King of England

  • ¹ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1989, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 4.
  • ² Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 24.
  • ³ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 4-5, 9.
  • ⁴ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
  • ⁵ Morris, Jean, The Monarchs of England, New York: Charterhouse (1975), 15-22.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 481.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 31, 62.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 387.
  • ⁹ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. I, p. 493.
  • ¹⁰ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, pp. 148, 474, 560.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 519, 562-569.
  • ¹² von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R., Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume I, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1988), 56.
  • ¹³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 126.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "William I of England", (accessed 02/21/2010).