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May 14, 2024 · 14th May 2024. Every monarchy has to start somewhere. For England, the ”modern” monarchy started with William the Conqueror and his wife, Matilda of Flanders. Matilda was born in 1031 into...
May 23, 2024 · Ermentrude von Lothringen de Verdun. Birthdate: estimated between 959 and 987. Birthplace: Verdun, Meuse, Grand Est, France. Death: 1042. Immediate Family: Daughter of Godefroi I the Captive, count of Ardennes and Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders.
6 days ago · Nowadays, we would expect Matilda to have been proclaimed ‘Queen of England’ as Elizabeth II was when she acceded to the throne. In the 12th century, however, a queen was the wife of a king. It had never been used as the title of a female ruler in England. In Poland, in the fourteenth century when a woman, Jadwiga, came to the throne, she ...
6 days ago · Countess of Flanders 877–929 Second Daughter of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith: Baldwin II Second Margrave of Flanders c. 865 –918: Ælfwynn 'Second Lady of the Mercians' b. c. 888: King Æthelstan c. 893/895 –939 King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 924–927 King of the English r. 927–939: Ælfweard of Wessex c. 902 –924
May 2, 2024 · Matilda of Flanders Forester [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth: 24 Nov 1031 : Belgium [3, 5] Flanders; Gender: Female : Burial: 1083 : Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France [3, 5] Death: 2 Nov 1083 : Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France [1, 2, 3, 5] Person ID: I2513 : MontyHistNotes_II: Last Modified: 2 May 2024
2 days ago · He organised an alliance against Philip, including Baldwin IX of Flanders, Renaud, Count of Boulogne, and his father-in-law, King Sancho VI of Navarre, who raided Philip's lands from the south. Most importantly, he managed to secure the Welf inheritance in Saxony for his nephew, Henry the Lion's son, who was elected Otto IV of Germany in 1198.
May 10, 2024 · Eleanor of Aquitaine (born c. 1122—died April 1, 1204, Fontevrault, Anjou, France) was the queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry II of England (1152–1204) and mother of Richard I (the Lionheart) and John of England. She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe.
