Maud "The Empress" Princess of England 
Maud "The Empress" Princess of was born in London, Middlesex, England. Maud "The Empress" Princess of's father was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and her mother was Matilda (Edith) Princess of Scotland. Her paternal grandparents were William I "The Conqueror" King of England and Matilda (Maud) of Flanders; her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III Canmore King of Scotland and St. Margaret Aetheling of Scotland. She had five half-brothers and seven half-sisters, named Henry, Reynold de, Robert de, William de, Robert, Maud of, Sibylla, Mabel (Eustacia), Elizabeth of, Alice of, Constance and Matilda of. She died on September 10th, 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. She was buried in Abbey of Bec, France.General Notes
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 arrogrance 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 initated 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.0978 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.0980 in France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0980 in Flanders now Belgium d.30 May 1036 in Flanders now Belgium
- b.~ 0962 in Italy d.26 JAN 1002/03
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, France
- b.~ 0995 in Luxemburg d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flanders, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.> 0939 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.14 Oct 0996 in Les Juifs, Chartres, France
- b.0985 in Orleans, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 0945 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France d.~ 1004
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'O, Messines, France
- b.0950 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.0994 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 0949 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland d.> 0990 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.0978 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Killed in Battle against Macbeth, who (1040) slew his son Duncan
- b.1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland (killed by Macbeth)
- b.0954 in Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis, Angus, Scotland (murdered)
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Scotland
- b.~ 0962 in Scotland
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria, England (slain besieging)
- b.~ 0970 in Denmark d.1049 in Murdered in Bosham
- b.~ 0990 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 0981 in Northumbria, England d.1038
- b.~ 0998 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England
- b.Oct 1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0993 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.0968 in Wessex, England d.1002
- b.1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0947 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England (Mercia)
- b.~ 0990 in Mercia, England
- b.~ 0965 in Mercia, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.0949 in Esztergom K Eszt, Hungary d.1 FEB 996/97 in Hungary
- b.~ 0975 in Esztergom, Hungary d.15 Aug 1038 in Esztergom, Hungary
- b.~ 0945 in Transylvania, Hungary
- b.~ 1020 in Hungary d.13 Jul 1054 in Scotland
- b.0951 in Bavaria d.28 Aug 0995
- b.~ 0985 in Bavaria d.14 FEB 1042/43
- b.< 0957 in Bourgogne, France d.21 Jul 1006
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