PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda
1088 - 1118 (30 years)
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Name PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda Birth 1088 Gender Female Differentiator Although she is usually called Matilda, she was born with the name Eadgyth (Edith), as Orderic Vitalis notes. Before her marriage to king Henry I, she had been sought in marriage by Alan Rufus of Brittany and William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey Relation to Me 28 GGM Royalty & Nobility Princess of Scotland, Queen Consort of England Burial May 1118 - Westminster Abbey
Death 1 May 1118 Person ID I31 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of, b. 26 Mar 1031, Scotland 
d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 62 years) Relationship natural Mother SCOTLAND, Margaret of, b. 1045, Hungary d. 16 Nov 1093, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 48 years) Relationship natural Family ID F226 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 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) Children + 1. MATILDA, Empress, b. 5 Aug 1102, Middlesex, England d. 10 Sep 1169, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F194 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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When you find a Gateway Ancestor in your family tree, it is almost impossible not to go down a rabbit hole of ancestry leading to connections with countless ancestors of the royal and noble classes. These lines have been extensively researched and documented by historians, so it is really just a matter of following the line. I've spent countless hours engrossed in the stories these royal lines have uncovered. In this album, I will link to ancestors who were members of the Royal class. Royalty refers to the ruling monarch and their immediate family. This includes kings, queens, princes, and princesses. The monarch is typically the highest authority in the land and has the power to grant titles of nobility.
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily unusual to be descended from royalty. After all, many of these connections go back to my 25th great grandparents and beyond. Theoretically, we have 67,108,864 sets of 25th great grandparents (In reality, due to a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse, where ancestors appear in the family tree multiple times in different generations due to intermarriage within a community, the actual number of unique 25th great-grandparents a person has is likely to be much lower). With this many, it might be more unusual NOT to descend from royalty. However, what makes our ancestry so unique is that we can TRACE it that far back, person to person to person. Since my fascination with our ancestry lies in my curiosity about the stories of the individual people, this is beyond compelling to me. It is like getting lost in a series of medieval novels in which I have an actual connection to the characters. It brings history to life.
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Notes - After her death, she was remembered by her subjects as "Matilda the Good Queen" and "Matilda of Blessed Memory", and for a time sainthood was sought for her, though she was never canonized. Matilda is also thought to be the identity of the "Fair Lady" mentioned at the end of each verse in the nursery rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. The post-Norman conquest English monarchs to the present day are related to the Anglo-Saxon House of Wessex monarchs via Matilda of Scotland as she was the great-granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside, see House of Wessex family tree.