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Matilda of Flanders (French: Mathilde; Dutch: Machteld; German: Mechtild) (c. 1031 – 2 November 1083) was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and regent of Normandy during his absences from the duchy. [1] She was the mother of nine children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II ...
Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders. [1] They had: Arnulf II, Count of Flanders [1] After Baldwin's death, Matilda married Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, with whom she had several children: Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun [2] Godfrey (d. 1023), duke of Lower Lorraine (1012–1023) [2]
It was the first coronation which can be proved to have been held at Westminster. In May 1068, William's wife, Matilda of Flanders, was also crowned at the abbey. At Easter in 1070, William was crowned for a second time at Winchester by three papal legates, to confirm the acceptance of his rule by the Catholic Church.
Matilda's parents' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182. [3] Matilde's father continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when her older sister Ida became countess.
Matilda (c. 1105 – 3 May 1152) was suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1125 and Queen of England from the accession of her husband, Stephen, in 1135 until her death in 1152. She supported Stephen in his struggle for the English throne against their mutual cousin Empress Matilda .
Matilda attempted to visit her father in England that year, but the journey was blocked by Count Charles I of Flanders, whose territory she would have needed to pass through. [41] Historian Marjorie Chibnall argues Matilda had intended to discuss the inheritance of the English crown on this journey.
She was the fourth child and daughter of Mathilde of Flanders and Henry I, Duke of Brabant. She married Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1214) in Aachen in 1212. She married Floris IV, Count of Holland [2] on 6 December 1224. When her spouse was killed at a tournament at Corbie in 1234, their eldest son William was only seven years old.
Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 –1083), wife of William the Conqueror Matilda of France (943–981/982), member of the Carolingian dynasty Matilda of Franconia (c. 1027 – 1034), daughter of Emperor Conrad II