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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: 1100 births, 1100 deaths, 1100 establishments, 1100 in law, Conflicts in 1100, William II of England, Godfrey of Bouillon, Sibyl de Neufmarche, Thomas of Bayeux, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Charter of Liberties, Bernard II, Count of Besalu, Antipope Clement III, List of state leaders in 1100, Inge the Elder, Naropa, Coudenberg, Dunster Priory, Emperor Qinzong of Song, Jabir ibn Aflah, Buxheim Charterhouse, Robert of Newminster, Warner of Grez, Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, City Hall, Emperor Zhezong of Song, Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Ibn Jazla, Idesbald, Selje Abbey, Letter of the Karaite elders of Ascalon, Gilla na Naomh Ua hEidhin, Robert de Neubourg, Bretislaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Bernold of Constance, ora Magnusdottir, Geoffrey, Count of Conversano, Nidarholm Abbey, Geoffrey de Mandeville, William IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Battle of Melitene, Gerland of Agrigento, Saint-Andre de Bruges Abbey, Matthieu I of Montmorency, Ermengarde of Nevers. Excerpt: Sibyl de Neufmarche, Countess of Hereford, suo jure Lady of Brecknock (c. 1100 - after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, king of Wales, Sibyl was also connected to the nobility of England and Normandy. Sibyl inherited the titles and lands of her father, Bernard de Neufmarche, Lord of Brecon, after her mother, Nest ferch Osbern, had declared her brother Mahel to have been illegitimate. Most of these estates passed to Sibyl's husband, Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, as her dowry. Their marriage had been arranged personally by King Henry I of England in the spring of 1121. Sibyl, with her extensive lands, was central to the King's plans of consolidating Anglo-Norman power in south-east Wales by the merging of her esta...
