Matilda Maud Beauclerc 
Matilda Maud was born on February 7th, 1102 in London, Middlesex, England. Matilda Maud's father was Henry Beauclerc and her mother was Matilda Atheling. Her paternal grandparents were William and Matilda De Flanders; her maternal grandparents were Malcolm Caenmor and Margaret Aethling. She had a sister named Constance. She was the younger of the two children. She had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named Robert, Elizabeth and Constance. She died at the age of 65 on September 10th, 1167 in Notre Dame, Paris, Seine, France. She was buried in Bec Abbey, Le Bec-Hellouin, Eure, France.General Notes
Matilda is the Latin form of Maud, and the name of the only surviving
legitimate child of King Henry I. She was born in 1101, generally it is
said at Winchester, but recent research indicates that she was actually
born at the RoyalPalace in Sutton Courtenay (Berkshire).
In something of a political coup for her father, Matilda was betroth
the German Emperor, Henry V, when she was only eight. They were married
on 7th January 1114. She was twelve and he was thirty-two. Unfortunately
there were no children and on the Emperors deathin 1125, Matilda was
recalled to her fathers court.
Matildas only legitimate brother had been killed in the disastrous Wreck
of the White Ship in late1120 and she was now her fathers only hope for
the continuation of his dynasty. The barons swore allegiance to the you
Princess and promised to make her queen after her fathers death. She
herself needed heirs though and in April 1127, Matilda found herself
obliged to marry Prince Geoffrey of Anjou and Maine (the future Geoffrey
V, Count of those Regions). He was thirteen, she twenty-three. It is
thought that the two never got on. However, despite this unhappy
situation they had had three sons in four years.
Being absent in Anjou at the time of her fathers death on 1st December
1135, possibly due to pregnancy, Matilda was not in much of a positi
take up the throne which had been promised her and she quickly lost out
to her fast-moving cousin, Stephen. With her husband, she attempted to
take Normandy. With encouragement fromsupporters in England though, it
was not long before Matilda invaded her rightful English domain and so
began a long-standing Civil War from the powerbase of her half-brother,
Robert of Gloucester, in the West Country. After threeyears of armed
struggle, she at last gained the upper hand at the Battle of Lincoln, in
February 1141, where King Stephen was captured.
However, despite being declared Queen or Lady of the English at
Winchester and winning over Stephens brother, Henry of Blois, the
powerful Bishop of Winchester, Matilda alienated the citizens of London
with her arrogant manner. She failed to secure her coronation and the
Londoners joined a renewed push from Stephens Queen and laid siege to
the Empress in Winchester. She managed to escape to the West, but while
commanding her rearguard, her brother was captured by the enemy.
Matilda was obliged to swap Stephen for Robert on 1st November 1141. Th
the King soon reimposed his Royal authority. In 1148, after the death of
her half-brother, Matilda finally returned to Normandy, leaving her son,
who,in 1154, would become Henry II, to fight on in England. She died at
Rouen on10th September 1169 and was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, though
some of her entrails may possibly have been later interred in her
fathers foundation at Reading Abbey.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.28 AUG 933 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.20 NOV 996 in Fecamp, Normandy, France
- b.0958 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, France
- b.~ 0936 in Neustrie, Normandy, France d.1031 in Neustrie, Normandy, France
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1034 in Nicea, Turkey
- b.0927 in Bretagne, France d.27 JUN 992 in Slain 992 at Conquereux, Conquereil, France
- b.0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 JUN 992
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Calvades, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 0955 in Falaise, Normandy, France
- b.0973 in Falaise Castle, Calvados, Basse-Normandy, France d.1017
- b.1003 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.1050 in Basse-Normandie, France
- b.5 OCT 958 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Murdered in Glamis Castle, Glamis, Angus, Scotland
- b.~ 0980
- b.< 0960 d.1044
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorks, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Angers, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.0980 in Flanders d.30 May 1036 in Flanders
- b.1012 in Flanders, Nord, Fr d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.~ 0965 d.06 Oct 1009
- b.~ 0995 in Luxemburg d.21 Feb 1030 in Flanders, France
- b.~ 0965 in of Gleiberg, Gremany
- b.1031 in Flanders d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.27 MAR 972 in Orleans, France d.1031 in Meulan, France
- b.1009 in France d.Jan 1079 in Monastaere De L'ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, , France
- b.0986 in Toulouse, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, France
- b.07 Feb 1102 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Paris, Seine, France
- b.0975 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1007 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Bothganowan, Elgin, Moray, Scotland
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1031 in , , Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 0953 in Of, Scotland
- b.~ 0978 in Scotland d.1049 in Murdered in Bosham
- b.~ 1010 in of, Northumberland, England d.1040
- b.~ 0980
- b.1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex England
- b.0968 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey d.23 Apr 1016 in , London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0988 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in , London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0968 in Normandy, France d.14 Mar 1052 in Winchester, England
- b.1015 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0960 in Of, England
- b.~ 0986 in Of, Wessex, England d.WFT Est 1019-1085
- b.~ 0960 in , , , England
- b.1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.0973 in Bavaria d.13 Jul 1024 in Speyer, Germany
- b.~ 1020 in Kief, UKraine, Russia d.13 Jul 1054 in Scotland
- b.~ 0990 in Hungary d.~ 1039 in Germany
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‌Matilda Maud and Geoffrey V were married in a religious ceremony on April 12th, 1127 in Le Mans, Maine, Normandy. They had a son named Henry II.
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Children
Henry II Plantagenet
Henry II was born in 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. He died at the age of 56 in 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was buried on July 8th, 1189 in Fontevrault Abbey.
They had a daughter named Constance.
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