Details from the Chronicle
In this year was the King Henry at Christmas and at Easter in Normandy; and before Pentecost he came to this land, and held his court at Westminster. There were the conditions fully settled, and the oaths sworn, for giving his daughter (137) to the emperor. (138) This year were very frequent storms of thunder, and very tremendous; and the Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury died on the eleventh day before the calends of April; and the first day of Easter was on "Litania major". (137) Matilda, Mathilde, or Maud. (138) Henry V. of Germany, the son of Henry IV.
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Key people and places
HENRY (I, King of England 1100-1135)
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