Princess Mary ENGLAND
- Died: 26 Sep 1119-1120, White Ship, Barfleur, Manche, France
- Buried: 26 Sep 1119-1120, Sea, Barfleur, Manche, France
 Another name for Mary was ENGLAND Princess.
General Notes:
Princess of ENGLAND.
BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Richard, Drowned in the White Ship 1120."
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green andCo, 1905 Ch VIII p169:
Ch VIII p169: [1120] "...His son William embarked a little later than his father in the `White Ship,' with a brilliant company of young relatives and nobles. They were in a very hilarious mood, and celebrated the occasion by making the crew drunk. Probably they were none too sober themselves; certainly Stephen of Blois was saved to be king of England in his cousin's place, by withdrawing to another vessel when he saw the condition of affairs on the `WhiteShip.' It was night and probably dark. About a mile and a half from Barfleur the ship struck a rock, and quickly filled and sank. It was said that William would have escaped if he had not turned back at the cries of his sister, Henry's naturaldaughter, the Countess of Perche. All on board were drowned except a butcher of Rouen. Never perished in any similar calamity so large a number of persons of rank. Another child of Henry's, his natural son Richard, his niece Matilda, sister ofTheobald and Stephen, a nephew of the Emperor Henry V, Richard, Earl of Chester, and his brother, the end of the male line of Hugh of Avranches, and a crowd of others of only lesser rank. Orderic Vitalis records that he had heard that eighteenladies perished, who were the daughters, sisters, nieces or wives of kings or earls. Henry is said to have fallen to the ground in a faint when the news was told to him, and never to have geen the same man again."
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