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Sybilla of Normandy

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Tenure
  
c.1107-1122

Name
  
Sybilla Normandy

Parents
  
Henry I of England

Father
  
Henry I of England

Spouse
  
Alexander I of Scotland

House
  
House of Normandy

Burial
  
Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland

Mother
  
Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester

Role
  
Alexander I of Scotland's wife

Died
  
July 1122, Ken, United Kingdom

Cousins
  
Stephen, King of England

Similar People
  
Henry I of England, Alexander I of Scotland, Matilda of Scotland, Robert - 1st Earl of Gloucester, Malcolm III of Scotland

Sybilla of Normandy (1092 – 12 or 13 July 1122) was Queen consort of Scotland, wife to Alexander I.

Sybilla was the first child of Henry I of England and his mistress, Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (b. 1077 in Alcester, Warwickshire, d. after 1157). Her maternal grandfather was Robert Corbet of Alcester, part of the Corbet_family. She was born circa 1092 in Domfront, Normandy.

Around 1107, she married Alexander I, King of Scots. The marriage was childless. The marriage ceremony may have occurred as early as 1107, or as at late as 1114.

William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety. Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at Eilean nam Ban (Kenmore on Loch Tay) in July 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. Alexander did not remarry and Walter Bower wrote that he planned an Augustinian Priory at the Eilean nam Ban dedicated to Sybilla's memory, and he may have taken steps to have her venerated. She was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife.

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