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6 days ago · 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 Henry V.
3 days ago · Empress Matilda Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle , [2] was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.
1 day ago · The House of Plantagenet (/plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins , who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the Houses ...
3 days ago · Date: Early in the reign, but after the birth of the future Empress Matilda, Aug. 1101 × Aug. 1102, and perhaps also after that of William Aetheling, Aug. 1102 × Aug. 1103 (Gervase of Canterbury I, 91–2).
3 days ago · Answer: Geoffrey V the Handsome, Count of Anjou. Geoffrey's nickname was Plantagenet, from whence the name of the dynasty is derived. The name came from the yellow bloom he wore in his hat, known in Latin as the planta genista. Geoffrey was married to the Empress Matilda who was the daughter of Henry I. Together they were the parents of Henry ...
5 days ago · Cannington is a village about 3 miles north-west of Bridgwater, on the road to Nether Stowey and Holford. The priory, founded about 1138 by Robert de Courci, an adherent of the Empress Matilda, was situated 'hard adnexid to the est of the parish church.'
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5 days ago · I send also Our Lady's girdle of Bruton, red silk, and Mary Magdalen's girdle, covered with white, sent to women "travailing;" which last the empress Matilda, founder of Ferley, gave them, "as saith the holy father of Ferley."
