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3 days ago · Henry was now undisputed master of England and Normandy, and would rule over a period of relative peace and stability for the Anglo-Norman realm.[^20] He made beneficial alliances through dynastic marriages, such as wedding his daughter Matilda to Emperor Henry V of Germany.[^21] Henry‘s court was noted as a centre of learning and literature ...
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 the ...
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5 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 ...
3 days ago · Determined to press his claim, William gathered a large invasion force and set sail for England in September 1066. Harold, meanwhile, had to contend with another threat: his exiled brother Tostig, who had allied with the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada to invade England from the north.
3 days ago · May 26, 2024. The year 1066 was a pivotal moment that transformed the course of English history. It was the year that William, Duke of Normandy, launched his famous invasion of England to seize the crown from the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. But why exactly did William stake this bold claim to the English throne?
3 days ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
4 days ago · In 1139, Matilda and her half-brother, Robert, invaded England. From the age of nine, Henry was repeatedly sent to England to be the male figurehead of the campaigns, since it became apparent that he would become king if England were conquered.
