Wer datete Edith Forne?

Edith Forne (d. after 1129), was an English noblewoman who was the concubine of King Henry I of England and the foundress of Osney Abbey near Oxford.

She was the daughter of Forn Sigulfson, Lord of Greystoke, Cumberland.

Edith had three children by King Henry:

1. Robert FitzEdith, (1093–1172) who married Maud d'Avranches. They had one daughter, Maud, who married Renaud, Sire of Courtenay (son of Miles, Sire of Courtenay and Ermengarde of Nevers).
2. William de Tracy (1097–1140).
3. Adeliza FitzEdith who appears in charters with her brother, Robert.

In 1120, Henry caused Edith to marry Robert D'Oyly the younger, second son of Nigel D'Oyly. As a marriage portion, she was granted the Manor of Cleydon, Buckinghamshire. Robert and Edith had at least two children: Henry, buried at Osney in 1163, and Gilbert.

In 1129, Edith persuaded her husband to build the Church of St Mary, in the Isle of Osney, near Oxford Castle, for the use of Augustine Canons: this was to become Osney Abbey. She told him that she had dreamt of the chattering of magpies, interpreted by a chaplain as souls in Purgatory who needed a church founding to expiate their sins.

Edith was buried in Osney Abbey, in a religious habit, as John Leland describes upon seeing her tomb as it was on the eve of the Dissolution: ‘Ther lyeth an image of Edith, of stone, in th' abbite of a vowess, holding a hart in her right hand, on the north side of the high altaire’. The legendary dream of magpies was painted near the tomb.

Heinrich I. (englisch Henry I; * um 1068 in Selby in Yorkshire; † 1. Dezember 1135 in Lyons-la-Forêt in der Normandie) wegen seines Interesses an den Wissenschaften Henry Beauclerk oder Henry Beauclerc genannt, war von 1100 bis 1135 König von England.

Heinrich war der jüngste Sohn Wilhelms des Eroberers und dessen Ehefrau Mathilde von Flandern. Er regierte als Nachfolger seines Bruders, Wilhelm II., genannt William Rufus. Heinrich erhielt den Beinamen „Löwe der Gerechtigkeit“ (englisch Lion of Justice), da seine Herrschaft durch eine selbst auferlegte Machtbeschränkung der Krone gekennzeichnet war. Daneben sind aus seiner Regierungszeit die Beschleunigung der Verwaltung, die Wiedervereinigung der Domänen seines Vaters und die umstrittene Entscheidung, seine Tochter Matilda als seine Erbin einzusetzen, in Erinnerung geblieben.