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6 days ago · Empress Matilda. 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 ...
May 24, 2024 · It was at this council that Bishop Henry first proclaimed Matilda domina Anglorum, ‘lady of the English’. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. In naming Empress Matilda ‘Lady of the English’ the bishop of Winchester was harking back to the only other time a woman had been acknowledge as a ruler in her own right in England.
May 14, 2024 · Matilda was also an important member of William’s ruling circle. As he prepared his invasion of England, convinced the throne was his by right, Matilda was among his greatest supporters.
May 23, 2024 · Through political wrangling, Matilda managed to get her son, Henry, in line for the English crown. In 1154, after defeating King Stephen of England in battle, the Plantagenets forced Stephen to name Henry as heir by signing the Treaty of Wallingford.
3 days ago · Henry became politically and militarily involved by the age of fourteen in the efforts of his mother, Matilda (daughter of Henry I of England ), to claim the English throne, at that time held by Matilda's cousin Stephen of Blois. Henry's father, Geoffrey, made him Duke of Normandy in 1150, and upon Geoffrey's death in 1151, Henry inherited Anjou, Maine and Touraine. His marriage to Eleanor of ...
6 days ago · This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the Welsh border, and again from the Wye on the Welsh border anti-clockwise to the Tweed on the Scottish border.
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May 28, 2024 · Answer: Matilda of Anjou. Henry I married his son William to the daughter of Fulk V of Anjou in an attempt to make an ally out of an enemy. Upon the death of William, Fulk married another daughter, Sybil to Henry's nephew William Clito. Henry was successful in having this marriage annuled on the basis of consanguinity - somewhat problematic ...
