![]() ![]() The sinking also brought about what today would be called regime change following Henry I’s death in 1135.Īfter William Adelin died, another legitimate sister, also named Matilda, was a potential monarch. ![]() Spencer quoted from a contemporary account. “‘No ship ever brought such misery to England,’” Mr. Too many survivors swamped the returning vessel, sinking it. The royal heir William Adelin could have made it, having escaped in a smaller boat, but drowned when he turned back to rescue his half-sister Matilda. The only survivor was a butcher from Rouen who’d boarded the vessel hoping to collect money owed. When the ship capsized in the freezing waters of the English Channel after striking a submerged rock off the town of Barfleur, Normandy, “the fact that they couldn’t swim was the guarantor that any who hadn’t scrambled about upon a piece of wreckage would go down,” Mr. The only people I can find at this time who could swim were directly connected to the sea, such as fishermen.” There was no concept, though, of a leisure pastime such as swimming. Less than 60 years later, that dynasty lay in ruins due to careless seamanship and the fact that no one then knew how to swim. Henry I’s father, William the Conqueror, led the Normans to power in Britain at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. ![]()
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