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Stephen's wife, Queen Matilda, had kept his cause alive in the south-east of England, and the Queen, backed by her lieutenant William of Ypres and reinforced with fresh troops from London, took the opportunity to advance on Winchester. [163] Their forces encircled Matilda's army. [164]
Matilda (Empress Maud), Stephen and The Anarchy, the ‘forgotten’ English Civil War of the 12th century…. Matilda was an indomitable woman! She was the daughter of King Henry I of England, and was his sole legitimate child after the death of his son Prince William in the ‘White Ship’ disaster.*.
Matilda was born in 1102, the daughter of Henry I, King of England. In 1114, she married the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. The death of Matilda's brother in 1120 made her Henry I's sole...
Jul 19, 2021 · We can think of Empress Matilda as the fierce nearly Norman queen, who battled her cousin Stephen and the sexism of medieval England for 19 long years, during a period described as ‘The Anarchy’. Basing her campaign in Oxford, Matilda battled, sieged, and even made an elaborate escape during her enduring efforts to claim the English throne.
Jun 27, 2024 · Matilda was the consort of the Holy Roman emperor Henry V and afterward claimant to the English throne in the reign of King Stephen. She was the only daughter of Henry I of England by Queen Matilda and was sister of William the Aetheling, heir to the English and Norman thrones.
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Jun 4, 2019 · Also Known As: Empress Maud, Holy Roman Empress; German Queen; Queen of Italy. Born: c. February 7, 1102 in either Winchester or Sutton Courtenay, England. Parents: Henry I of England, Matilda of Scotland. Died: September 10, 1167 in Rouen, France. Spouse (s): Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou.
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Feb 22, 2014 · She was the first king’s wife to whom the term hlæfdige was applied. In the time of the reign of Edgar the Peaceable (959-975), great-grandson of Alfred the Great, we have the record of the first consecrated queen in England with the crowning of his wife Aelfthryth at Bath in 973.
