Princess Matilda ("The Empress") of England 
Matilda, known as "The Empress", was born in London, Middlesex, England. "The Empress"'s father was King Henry ("Beauclerc", "Fine Scholar") Plantagenet I of England and her mother was Princess Matilda ("Atheling") of Scotland. Her paternal grandparents were King William ("the Conqueror") I of England and Matilda of Flanders; her maternal grandparents were King Malcom III ("Ceanmor", "Longneck", "Bighead") of Scotland and Princess Margaret ("the Exile", "Atheling") of Wessex. She had a sister named Lady of the English. She had five half-brothers and nine half-sisters, named "the King's Son", Rainald, William, Henry FitzHenry, Haldane, Constance Matilda, Alix, Joan Elizabeth, Maud, Eustacia, Emme, Sibyl Elizabeth, Annora and Mathilde. She died on September 10th, 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. She was buried on September 10th, 1167 in Bec Abbey, Le Bec-Hellouin, Eure, France.General Notes
# Event: Info 2 Queen Of England. In 1152 Renounced Claim To The Throne In Favour Of Stephen For His Life Then To Her Son.
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, CountFulk, 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.28 Aug 0933 in Fecamp, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, France
- b.ABT 0958/0963 in Normandie d.28 Aug 1026/1027 in Fâecamp, Normandie
- b.~ 0936 in Normandie, France d.1031 in France
- b.1003/1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jun 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.0927/0955 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.29 Jun 0992 in Brittany, France
- b.~ 0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandie, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992/1012
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.0945 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.29 Sep 1027 in Roskilde, Denmark
- b.~ 0978 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1078 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1003/1012 in Falaise, Normandy d.1050
- b.~ 0945
- b.ABT 0974/0980 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1080 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.0949/0961 in Flandres, France d.30 Mar 0987
- b.0980 in Flandres, France d.30 May 1036/1039 in Flandres, France
- b.~ 0945 in Luxembourg d.26 Jan 1003 in Gent, Flanders
- b.1002 in Flanders d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Duchy Of Lower
- b.ABT 0945/0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.21 Feb 1030 in Flandres, France
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.~ 1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandie, France
- b.0939 in Paris, Isle de France, France d.24 Aug 0996 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 0952 in Germany d.1004
- b.1003/1009 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monastáere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, , France
- b.~ 0947 in Toulouse, France d.Sep 1037
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, France
- b.~ 0945 in Anjou, France
- b.Feb 1102/1103 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 0949 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.~ 0988
- b.~ 0975 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0951 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1040 in Scotland
- b.ABT 1001/1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.15 Aug 1040 in pitgaveny
- b.ABT 0954/0970 in Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0962 in Scotland
- b.ABT 1031/1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 0953 in Scotland
- b.~ 0978 in Scotland
- b.~ 1014 in Northumberland, England d.1040
- b.~ 0968 in Bamburgh d.1038
- b.~ 0994 in Northumbria, Scotland
- b.ABT 1079/1080 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.0989 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.ABT 0963/0968 in Wessex, England d.Feb 1002 in Winchester, England
- b.~ 1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 0986 in Wessex, England
- b.1042/1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.0960 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany d.1011/1016
- b.~ 1000 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany d.23 Apr 1038
- b.11 Nov 0993/0999 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.14 Feb 1043
- b.~ 1018 in Braunschweig, Prussia d.13 Jul 1024
- b.ABT 0960/0970 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States d.< 1049
- b.~ 0988 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States d.21 Jul 1077
- b.~ 0964 in Dabo, Moselle, France d.1046
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They had a daughter named Emme.
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