Sybilla of Normandy (c. 1092 – 12 or 13 July 1122) was Queen of Scotland as the wife of

Alexander I Alexander I may refer to: * Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon 495–454 BC * Alexander I of Epirus (370–331 BC), king of Epirus * Pope Alexander I (died 115), early bishop of Rome * Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (died 320s), patriarch of A ...

. Sybilla was the first child of

Henry I of England Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in ...

and his

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, Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (b. 1077 in

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, d. after 1157). Her maternal grandfather was Robert Corbet of Alcester, part of the

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. She was born circa 1092 in Domfront,

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. Around 1107, Sybilla 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.

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's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.Duncan, p. 65; Oram, p. 71. Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at ''Eilean nam Ban'' ( Kenmore on

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) in July 1122 and was buried at

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. Alexander did not remarry and

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wrote that he planned an Augustinian

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at the ''Eilean nam Ban'' dedicated to Sybilla's memory, and he may have taken steps to have her

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