MATILDA, Empress
1102 - 1169 (67 years)
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Name MATILDA, Empress [1] Birth 7 Feb 1102 Birth 5 Aug 1102 Middlesex, England 
[1, 2] Gender Female Royalty & Nobility Between 7 Jan 1114 and 23 May 1125 Holy Roman Empress; German Queen; Queen of Italy Death 10 Sep 1167 Books About Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick 
Lady of the English Differentiator Claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. Relation to Me 27 GGM Name Matilda Maud Empress Of GERMANY [2] Death 10 Sep 1169 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France [1, 2] Person ID I464 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father HENRY, King of England I, b. 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England d. 1 Dec 1135, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 67 years) Relationship natural Mother PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda, b. 1088 d. 1 May 1118 (Age 30 years) Relationship natural Family ID F194 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V, b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 7 Sep 1151, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 38 years) Marriage 22 May 1127 Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France [2] Married Dec 1128 Children + 1. HENRY, II, b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France (Age 56 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. PLANTAGENET, Guillaume, b. 22 Jul 1136, Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France d. 30 Jan 1163, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 26 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey VI Mantell, b. 3 Jun 1134, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 27 Jul 1157, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 23 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F20 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 5 Aug 1102 - Middlesex, England 
Marriage - 22 May 1127 - Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France 
Death - 10 Sep 1169 - Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France = Link to Google Earth
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Empress Matilda - Wikipedia
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Notes - The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband into Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned in St. Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry had no children, and when Henry died in 1125, the crown was claimed by Lothair II, one of his political enemies.
On Henry V's death, Matilda was recalled to Normandy by her father, who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou to form an alliance to protect his southern borders. Henry I had no further legitimate children and nominated Matilda as his heir, making his court swear an oath of loyalty to her and her successors, but the decision was not popular in the Anglo-Norman court. Henry died in 1135 but Matilda and Geoffrey faced opposition from the Norman barons and were unable to pursue their claims. The throne was instead taken by Matilda's cousin Stephen of Blois, who enjoyed the backing of the English Church.
In 1139 Matilda crossed to England to take the kingdom by force, supported by her half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, and her uncle, King David I of Scotland, while Geoffrey focused on conquering Normandy. Matilda's forces captured Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, but the Empress's attempt to be crowned at Westminster collapsed in the face of bitter opposition from the London crowds. As a result of this retreat, Matilda was never formally declared Queen of England, and was instead titled the Lady of the English.
The war degenerated into a stalemate, with Matilda controlling much of the south-west of England, and Stephen the south-east and the Midlands. Large parts of the rest of the country were in the hands of local, independent barons. Matilda returned to Normandy, now in the hands of her husband, in 1148, leaving her eldest son to continue the campaign in England; he eventually succeeded to the throne as Henry II in 1154.
- The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband into Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned in St. Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry had no children, and when Henry died in 1125, the crown was claimed by Lothair II, one of his political enemies.
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Sources - [S1416] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
- [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
Record for Geoffroi V le Bon PLANTAGENET
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-630763368&indiv=try
- [S1416] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).