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Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, [nb 1] was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy , she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor ...
This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
Matilda is a character in Henry I of England, a play by Beth Flintoff, which was first performed in November 2016 at St James's Church, Reading. [1] [2] The drama follows the story of the three sons of William the Conqueror and ends with the early reign of her father Henry, including the time when Matilda became Empress by marrying Henry V of Germany.
The Anarchy is depicted in the 2011 Elizabeth Chadwick novel about Empress Matilda, Lady of the English. [ 3 ] Elizabeth Chadwick 's A Place Beyond Courage (published 2008, Sphere) is set during the Anarchy, focusing on the life of John FitzGilbert the Marshal .
Matilda's men fled into the abbey, which was then burned by Stephen's troops commanded by William of Ypres. Traces of the earthworks built by the Empress Matilda's forces are visible today. [6] Christ holding a book, with his hand raised in blessing - An illumination from the Saint Bertin Psalter passed down to Wherwell abbesses by Matilda de ...
More grave markers with inscriptions that identify some of Worcester’s most prominent residents from the 1700s have been unearthed at Hope Cemetery.
The first is southern England, where the de Clare and de Beaumont families, allies of King Stephen, and their enemies Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (a griffin, before 1144), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon, who were on the side of Matilda the Empress and her son Henry II Plantagenet, adopted armorial ...
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