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Empress Matilda, also known as Maud, was the only daughter of Henry inom of England and Queen Matilda and sister of William the Adelin, the heir to the English and Norman thrones. She was born in London in 1102 and died near Rouen, France, on September 10, 1167. She was the consort of the Holy Roman kejsare Henry V. Her marriage to Geoffrey Plantagenet played a significant role in shaping the future of the English monarchy.
See the fact en samling dokument eller en elektronisk lagring av data below for more upplysning on Empress Matilda, or you can download our 29-page Empress Matilda worksheet pac • Duchess of Saxony and BavariaTemplate:SHORTDESC:Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria Template:More sources Matilda depicted at her wedding in the Gospels of Henry the Lion Brunswick Cathedral, Lower Saxony Henry the Lion Matilda of England (June 1156 – June/July 1189) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet[lower-alpha 1] and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180. Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in Lo • Although the Battle of Hastings was fought by men, the women of the two opponents, Harold and William, had as much invested in the outcome as their husbands. The two women, however, have very different reputations. Whereas Matilda appears as the epitome of the medieval ideal woman, Edith has come down through history as ‘the other woman’. However, for both these women, their futures, and the futures of their children, were inextricably linked with the fates of the men fighting on Senlac Hill on that October morning in 1066. Harold had met Edith Swan-neck at about the same time as he became earl of East Anglia, in 1044. Which makes it possible that Edith Swan-neck and the East Anglian magnate, Eadgifu the Fair, are one and the same. Eadgifu the Fair held over 270 hides of land and was one of the richest magnates in England. The majority of her estates lay in Cambridgeshire, but she also held land in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk; in the Domesday B Matilda Tenure 1 February 1168 – 1180 Born June 1156
London, EnglandDied June/July 1189 (aged 32–33)
Brunswick, Duchy of SaxonyBurial Spouse Issue House Plantagenet / Angevin[note 1] Father Henry II of England Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine Life[]