 1102 - 1167 (65 years)
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| Name |
Matilda Normandy |
| Title |
Princess of England |
| Birth |
5 Aug 1102 |
London, Middlesex, England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
10 Sep 1167 [3, 4] |
- Abbey of Notre Dame de Pres, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
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| Burial |
Abbey of Notre Dame de Pres, Rouen, Seine-Maritime |
| Person ID |
I8308 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
King of England Henry I "Beauclerc", b. Abt Sep 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England d. 1 Dec 1135, Lyons-la-Foret, Normandy, France (Age 67 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Princess of Scotland Matilda (Edith) mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1080, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England (Age 38 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
11 Nov 1100 |
Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England [3] |
| Family ID |
F3252 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou V, b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 7 Sep 1151, Château-du-Loir, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France (Age 38 years) |
| Marriage |
22 May 1127 |
Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou, France [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet, b. 25 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Normandy, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Castle Chinon, Saumer, Indre Et Loire, France (Age 56 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Count of Nantes Geoffrey VI Plantagenet, b. 1 Jun 1134 d. 26 Jul 1158, Nantes, Brittany (Age 24 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Count of Poitou William Plantagenet, b. 1136 d. 30 Jan 1163/64, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 28 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F4310 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- She was designated Henry's heir, and on his death (1135), Stephen seized the throne and Matilda invaded England (1139) inaugurating a period of inconclusive civil war. She and her second husband (Geoffrey) captured Normandy and in 1152 the Treaty of Wallingford recognized Henry as Stephen's heir.
Burke says she was betrothed in her eighth year (1119) to Henry.
MATILDA (1102-1167), empress, was the daughter of Henry I of England by his first marriage. She was betrothed in 1109 and married in 1114 to the German emperor Henry V. When her husband died (1125) leaving her childless, her father, whose only surviving legitimate child she then was, persuaded his reluctant barons to accept her, on oath, as his successor (Jan. 1, 1127). The novel prospect of a female ruler was itself unwelcome; Matilda's 17-year absence in Germany (where she was not unpopular) and her apparent arrogance estranged her from her father's subjects. Difficulties also might result from her remarriage to provide for the succession. Her marriage in 1128 to Geoffrey Plantagenet, heir to Anjou and Maine (designed by Henry I, like her first marriage, for political ends), whose father, Count Fulk, departed immediately after the ceremony to become the consort of Melisende of Jerusalem, flouted the barons' stipulation that she should not marry outside England without their consent, and was unpopular in Normandy and England. On Henry I's death, his nephew Stephen by prompt action secured England and was recognized by Pope Innocent II. Matilda and Geoffrey, however, made some headway in Normandy. Matilda's subsequent challenge to Stephen's position in England mainly depended on the support of her half-brother Earl Robert of Gloucester. After the defeat and capture of Stephen at Lincoln (Feb. 1141), Matilda was elected "lady of the English" and would have been queen could she have proceeded to coronation, but active support for her cause still came mainly from the western counties. Her chance of consolidating her precarious victory was swiftly destroyed by a reaction imitated by her tactless handling of London. After her defeat at Winchester in Sept. 1141, her supporters, slowly reduced by death and defection, maintained a stubborn defense until Earl Robert died (1147) and Matilda retired (1148) to Normandy, of which her husband had gained possession. She continued to interest herself in the government of the territories of her eldest son, the future Henry II of England. Her career was not entirely unsuccessful: all the subsequent monarchs of England have been her descendants, not Stephen's. She died in Normandy on Sept. 10, 1167.
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| Sources |
- [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 153-24a.
- [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 1-24.
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- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 161.
- [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 153-24a.
"The Pillars of the Earth" by KenFolletillustratedthechaoscausedbythewreck of the WhiteShipandtheCivilWarbetweenKingStephenandMaud,mother of Henry II.
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