Matilda 'The Empress' of England
Matilda 'The Empress' of was born on August 5th, 1102 in London, Middlesex, , England.1 Matilda 'The Empress' of's father was Henry I Beauclerc King of England and her mother was Matilda Scotland Queen of England. Her paternal grandparents were William The Conqueror King of England and Matilda Countess of Flanders Queen Consort of England; her maternal grandparents were Malcolm Iii King of Scotland and Margaret 'Saint' of Hungary. She had a brother and a sister, named Geoffrey V Plantagenet Count of and Adelaide of. She was the oldest of the three children. She had three half-brothers named + Robert (Earl of Gloucester), Reginald and Robert. She died at the age of 67 on September 10th, 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.1 General Notes
Matilda 'the Empress' of England was born circa August 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
She was the daughter of Henry I 'Beauclerc', King of England and Editha of Scotland.
She married Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 7 January 1114 in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
She married Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Comte d'Anjou et Maine, son of Fulk V d'Anjou, 9th Comte d'Anjou and Aremburga de la Fleche, Comtesse de Maine, on 22 May 1128 in Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Maine, France.
She died on 10 September 1167 in Abbey of the Notre Dame des Prés, Rouen, Caux, France. She was buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, Caux, France.
Matilda 'the Empress' of England was baptised with the name of Adelaide.
Through her marriage, Matilda 'the Empress' of England was styled as Empress Matilda of Germany on 7 January 1114.
She gained the title of Lady of the English on 7 April 1141. She was deposed as Lady of the English on 1 November 1141.
Daughter of Henry I and Matilda of Scotland, she was nominated by her father as his successor. However, on the death of Henry I, the council considering a woman unfit to rule offered the throne to Stephen. Matilda invaded England and fought (1139 - 1148) to wrest rule from the usurping Stephen. She won much of the west, and after Stephen's capture in April 1141 a clerical council proclaimed Matilda 'Lady of the English'. She entered London but made cash demands that provoked Londoners to expel her before a coronation. On Stephen's release, she suffered defeats (fled from Oxford Castle Dec 1142), and eventually left England for Normandy, now controlled by her husband. The cause of her death is obscure. Although Matilda failed to secure the English throne, she laid a basis for successful claims by descendants of her husband Geoffrey of Anjou.
Children of Matilda 'the Empress' of England and Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Comte d'Anjou et Maine
Emma Plantagenet d. b 1214
Henry II 'Curtmantle' d'Anjou, King of England+ b. 5 Mar 1133, d. 6 Jul 1189
Geoffrey VI d'Anjou, Comte d'Anjou et Nantes b. 1 Jun 1134, d. 26 Jul 1158
William de Poitou, Comte de Poitou b. c Jul 1136, d. 30 Jan 1164
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.28 AUG 933 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d.20 NOV 996 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
- b.0963 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1027 in Fecamp, Normandie, France
- b.0936 in Arques, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d.1031 in Neustrie, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1004 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandie, France d.06 Aug 1028 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.0927 in Bretange, Rennes, France d.29 JUN 992
- b.0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 JUN 992 in Anjou, Normandy, France
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise,Normandy d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville,Rouen,Normandy
- b.0973 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d.1017 in Normandy, , , France
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d.~ 1050 in Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France
- b.0973 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, , England d.01 Dec 1135 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1012 d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, , , France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen,Normandy
- b.~ 1009 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Messinesmonastre, France
- b.05 Aug 1102 in London, Middlesex, , England d.10 Sep 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
- b.0980 in Athol, Perthshire, , Scotland d.1045 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, , Scotland
- b.1001 in Perth, Perthshire, , Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Moray, , Scotland
- b.1000 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1031 in Perth, Perthshire, , Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, , England
- b.1009 in , Northumberland, , England d.1040 in , , , Scotland
- b.1080 in Dunfermline, Fife, , Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1016 in , , Wessex, England d.19 Apr 1057 in London, Middlesex, England , bur St Paul's Cathedral
- b.1046 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian, Scotland
- b.1025 in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany d.13 Jul 1054 in London, Middlesex, , England
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Matilda 'The Empress' of and Geoffrey V Plantagenet Count of were married in a religious ceremony on May 22nd, 1127 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.1 They had three sons and a daughter, named Henry II Curtmantle King of, William, Geoffrey and Emma.
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Children
Henry II Curtmantle King of England
Henry II Curtmantle King of was born on March 5th, 1132 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.2 He died at the age of 57 on July 6th, 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. He was buried on July 8th, 1189 in Fountevrault-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France.3 2
Emma Plantagenet
Emma was born in 1138 in France.4 She died at the age of 76 in 1214 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France.4
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