Henry Fitz Henry

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 33A:24, Henry Fitz Henry, son of Henry I, King of England and Nest, the daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of Deheubarth, South Waltes, was of Narberth and Pebidiog. He was born about 1105 and died in 1156. By an unknown wife, he was the father of Meiler Fitz Henry, Justicar of Ireland and Anabilis Fitz Henry, wife of Walter de Ridelisford of Carriebenan, in Kildare. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Henry the King's son, whose mother was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, Prince of South Wales where Henry was born, and wife of Gerald de Windsor. He was slain during Henry II's invasion of Anglesey in 1157, leaving (by an unknown wife) 2 sons.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. XI, Appendix D, p. 110

• Background Information. ¹¹²⁹
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, Henry Fitz Henry was also called Henry Fitz Roi in a few records. He was killed in the English attack on Anglesea in 1157. Henry was born while his mother, Nesta, was married to Gerald Fitz Walter, and brought up with the rest of her children. He held lands in Narberth and Pebidiog, South Wales, as well as in Ireland. He is given credit for three children by an unknown woman, Meiler, Robert and Amabilis, as well as a possible son also named Henry.

~ An Hitherto Unnoted Descent from King Henry I, NEHGR, Vol. 116, Oct. 1962, p. 278