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Several of Matilda's key supporters died: in 1147 Robert of Gloucester died peacefully, and Brian Fitz Count gradually withdrew from public life, probably eventually joining a monastery; by 1151 he was dead. [192] Many of Matilda's other followers joined the Second Crusade when it was announced in 1145, leaving the region for several years. [191]
Several candidates were considered for Matilda's hand in marriage including the kings of Scotland and Hungary. After the death of her grandfather, King Henry II, in 1189, her uncle Richard the Lionheart arranged a marriage with Geoffrey of Perche, [1] heir to a strategic manor in Normandy, and a crusader of the Third Crusade. Geoffrey returned ...
Matilda de Percy, Countess of Warwick (died c. October 1204), was a 12th-century noblewoman and heiress. She was the wife of William, earl of Warwick (died 1184) and, in 1174 became a co-heir of her father's large Yorkshire barony with her younger sister Agnes.
Matilda of Tuscany (Italian: Matilde di Toscana; Latin: Matilda or Mathilda; c. 1046 – 24 July 1115), or Matilda of Canossa (Italian: Matilde di Canossa [maˈtilde di kaˈnɔssa]), also referred to as la Gran Contessa ("the Great Countess"), was a member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) in the second half of the eleventh century.
The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order. The conflict was a war of succession precipitated by the accidental death of William Adelin (the only legitimate son of Henry I) who had drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120.
William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling) [a] was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir apparent to the English throne.
Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future King Henry II of England, mounted a small mercenary invasion of England in 1147 but the expedition failed, not least because Henry lacked the funds to pay his men. [185] Surprisingly, Stephen himself ended up paying their costs, allowing Henry to return home safely; his reasons for doing so are unclear.
25 December – Henry I asks his nobles to recognise Empress Matilda as his heir. [6] 1127. 1 January – English nobles accept Matilda as heir. [2] 1128. 17 June – the dowager Empress Matilda marries Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to the Count of Anjou, [2] in Le Mans. Foundation of the first Cistercian abbey in England, at Waverley in Surrey ...