Sybilla de Normandy

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Sybilla de Normandy (1092- 12 July/13 July 1122) was queen consort of Alexander I of Scotland.

Sybilla was born circa 1092 in Domfront, Normandy (now Orne), the illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and Sybilla, daughter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall. She was married to Alexander I, King of Scots in circa 1107. The marriage was childless.

She died 12/13th July 1122 on the tiny island of Eilean nam Ban (Eilean nan Bannoamh: Isle of the female saints) in Loch Tay, and Alexander founded a priory on the island in her memory. She was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife.

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