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Matilda launched her first campaign in 1139, and quickly gained control of several key cities in the south of England. However, Stephen was able to rally his forces, and in 1141 he captured Matilda in battle and took her as his prisoner. Despite this setback, Matilda’s cause was not lost, and her supporters continued to fight on her behalf.
May 23, 2021 · The Anarchy was a period of civil war in England between 1135 and 1153, following the death of Henry I. The anonymous 12th-century history Gesta Stephani ( The Deeds of Stephen) paints a dismal picture of the state of the country at this time: “England, formerly the seat of justice, the habitation of peace, the height of piety, the mirror of ...
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Jul 19, 2021 · The Nearly Norman Queen of England. We can think of Empress Matilda as the fierce nearly Norman queen, who battled her cousin Stephen and the sexism of medieval England for 19 long years, during a period described as ‘The Anarchy’. Basing her campaign in Oxford, Matilda battled, sieged, and even made an elaborate escape during her enduring ...
- It was the White Ship that did it. Despite the best efforts of King Henry I (1068-1135) to line up his legitimate daughter Matilda (1102-1167) for the royal hot seat in the event of his death, Henry’s upstart nephew Stephen of Blois (1092/1096-1154) grabbed the English throne for himself, welching on an earlier promise.
- King Stephen had a very sore stomach. Though formidable in a ruck, King Stephen suffered from stomach problems for many years and was even said to have bailed from the White Ship’s final voyage because of dodgy guts.
- The war featured just one battle. As bizarre as it sounds, there was only one pitched battle in the entire war, the Battle of Lincoln in 1141. In the Middle Ages, open-ground dustups were very rare and were considered high risk.
- It was a very violent time. War, violent? Quelle surprise. Many revisionist historians of recent decades have tried to argue, though, that far from being ‘anarchy’ Stephen’s reign was typical in terms of medieval mayhem, or at least a gore-fest comparable to other rocky periods in the Anglo-Norman years.
May 3, 2022 · In the spring of 1141, as England suffered in the midst of a bitter civil war, Queen Matilda of Boulogne was in Kent, busily raising an army. Galvanised by the news that her husband, King Stephen, had been imprisoned by his vengeful rival and cousin, the Empress Maud (also known as Empress Matilda), the queen was utterly determined to march on London and ensure that the empress would never ...
Aug 26, 2020 · But while the king was focused on regaining control in England, Normandy was largely out of his control, and Geoffrey and Matilda were preparing their forces for the inevitable invasion of England. This invasion finally took place in 1139 AD when the initial forces under the command of Baldwin de Redvers, 1 st Earl of Devon, crossed over the ...
May 3, 2018 · Lindsay Mullaney, local historian Empress Matilda, one of the most fascinating personalities of the Middle Ages, was probably born at Sutton Courtenay, near Abingdon, where the abbot, Faritius, was physician to Henry I and his wife, Queen Matilda. When she was only 6, in 1108, negotiations began for her betrothal to Heinrich V, the Holy Roman Emperor. Matilda travelled to Germany, aged 8, to ...
