1102 - 1167 (65 years)| Name | Matilda of England [1] | |
| Title | Holy Roman Empress | |
| Birth | 7 Feb 1102 | London, England  [1] |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Notable Quote | Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry | |
| Occupation | Matilda was the first female ruler of the Kingdom of England, though the length of her effective rule was brief: a few months in 1141. She was never crowned and failed to consolidate her rule (legally and politically) | |
| Death | 10 Sep 1167 | Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France [1] |
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| Burial | France |
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Church - Abbaye du Bec Bec Abbey, Normandy, France, once the most influential abbeys in the Anglo-Norman kingdom of the twelfth century, is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay. The abbey was founded in 1034 by Herluin, a Norman knight who in about 1031 left the court of Gilbert,… |
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| Person ID | I8765 | A Tree Called Smith |
| Last Modified | 21 Jul 2025 | |
| Father | Duke of Normandy and King of England Henry Plantagenet, I, b. 21 Feb 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England d. 1 Dec 1135, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 67 years) | |
| Relationship | natural | |
| Mother | Princess of Scotland, Queen Consort of England Matilda of Scotland, b. 1 May 1080, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminster, London, England (Age 38 years) | |
| Relationship | natural | |
| Marriage | 11 Nov 1100 | London, England [2, 3] |
| Family ID | F3085 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Count of Anjou, Touraine, Maine and Duke of Normandy Geoffrey Plantagenet, V, b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 7 Sep 1151, Eurre, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 38 years) | |||||
| Marriage | 11 Jun 1128 | |||||
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| Family ID | F4573 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||
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| Old World | | _Empress Matilda Empress Matilda (c. 7 Feb 1102 – 10 Sep 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband to Italy in 1116,… |
| Places | | Church - Abbaye du Bec Bec Abbey, Normandy, France, once the most influential abbeys in the Anglo-Norman kingdom of the twelfth century, is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay. The abbey was founded in 1034 by Herluin, a Norman knight who in about 1031 left the court of Gilbert,… |
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