Empress matilda

During a two-decade period of English history known as the Anarchy, a woman sought to make the then-unprecedented move of ascending to the English throne.

Queen Matilda - also Empress Matilda. Matilda was the daughter of Henry l of England and her second husband was Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. Matilda and Geoffrey were the parents of Henry ll.:

Empress Matilda, First Queen of England and her extraordinary life : Matilda was born on or about February 7, 1102, as the daughter of Henry 1. Through...

Example of a dress of a Norman noblewoman during the mid- and late 12th century. Quite similar to the Merovingian style, which was adopted by the Normans when they conquered Normandy. Matilda of the English (1102-1167). She was the daughter of Henry I of England, but her throne was taken by her cousin Stephen of Blois, who enjoyed the backing of the English Church and the Norman Barons. She tried to recapture the throne, but failed. Her son succeeded to the throne as Henry II in 1154.

Matilda of Flanders (1031-1083), Queen of England and wife of William the Conqueror. Her husband William, as Duke of Normandy, led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

Matilda of Boulogne wife of Stephen of Blois

Empress Matilda of England tells the story of the first woman to claim the English throne in her own right.

We are honouring Empress Matilda and her battle with her cousin Stephen and her great escape from Oxford Castle one snowy winter's night

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Matilda: The greatest king England never had – Historia Magazine

Empress Matilda, refusing to release Stephen of Blois to his wife Matilda I (or Maud) of Boulogne | Illustration by Mary Lightbody Gow (1851-1929) from a special edition history of England published in 1903.

Empress Matilda's cross form the treasury at ;Le Valasse

The granddaughter of William the Conqueror was married on January 7th, 1114.

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Empress Matilda mother of King Henry II as depicted in Ken Follett's television drama Pillars of the earth

Philippa of Clarence (16 August 1355 – before 7 January 1378) was the suo jure Countess of Ulster. She was born at Eltham Palace in Kent on 16 August 1355, Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March at the age of twelve in 1368. They had four children