Fox and Anderson and Taylor families in USA » Empress Maud Matilda Normandie (1102-1169)

Bronnen

1. Book, Platagenet Encyclopedia, Elizabeth Hallam (ed.), Crescent Books, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-517-14081-0., 1996

   Daughter of Henry I of England and Edith of Scotland; wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V (1114-25), wife of Geoffrey the Fair, count of Anjou (1128-51). Her father arranged Matilda's betrothal (1109) and marriage (1114) to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. On his death in 1125, she returned to England and in 1127 was designated Henry I's heir; since her only legitimate brother, William, had drowned in 1120. She was strong-minded and ambitious: a contemporary ecclesiastic described her as 'a woman who has little of the woman in her.'
   
   Soon after Henry's barons accepted her claim (1127), Matilda was married (1128) for the second time, to Geoffrey IV, 'the Fair', count of Anjou, eleven years her junior. A mutual dislike soon developed between them. Matilda and Geoffrey were both unpopular with the barons in England and Normandy, a majority of whom supported her cousin, Stephen of Blois, in a successful coup when Henry I died in 1135.
   
   Matilda, with the help of her half-brother Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and others, fought back, invading England in 1139 while Geoffrey concentrated on subjugating Normandy. Matilda and her allies struggled for two years to gain the throne, but she alienated many of her supporters by her high-handed behaviour. In 1141 Stephen was brought captive to her at Gloucester, and a council at Winchester declared her 'Lady of England and Normandy.' She went on to London, where she so angered the citizens by her confiscations and demands for money that she was driven from the city. In 1141 she was forced by her followers to exchange Stephen for Robert, who had been captured that year. She was defeated at Winchester before the end of 1141. Many of the clergy who had declared for Matilda now switched their support back and nominated Stephen, who besieged her in Oxford castle in 1142: she escaped by slipping through his lines at night.
   
   She continued the struggle against Stephen, but with little success and in 1148 she retired to Normandy, which her husband Geoffrey had conquered in 1145. Her son Henry, the future Henry II of England, prosecuted his own claim to the kingdom, to which he succeeded in 1154. Matilda remained thereafter in Normandy, advising her son on the administration of his empire, and making lavish donations to the Church, until her death in 1167.

2. Wikipedia .org, via https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Normandie-...
3. Internet Page, via http://www.royalancestry.net/_pdf/pa_01/...

   probably a broken link:
   http://members.pcug.org.au/~ronwells/20-29.htm

Dezelfde geboorte/sterftedag

• Ook geboren op 7 februari
• Ook overleden op 10 september

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