Queen Maud Matilda ANGEVIN, Normandie^[1]

1103 - 1169  (66 years)

• Name	Maud Matilda ANGEVIN
  Prefix	Queen
  Suffix	Normandie
  Birth	5 Aug 1103	London, Middlesexshire, England
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	9CW3-3SK
  WikiTree ID	Normandie-40
  	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Normandie-40
  _UID	AFFDD381E24346B999BDF3FA274503885E10
  Death	10 Sep 1169	Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
  Burial	Bec Abbey, Le Bec-Hellouin, Eure, France
  Person ID	I6075	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	King Henry I Beauclerc Of Angevin ENGLAND, Of England,   b. 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England d. 1 Dec 1135, Saint-Denis-en-Lyons, Normandy, France (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Princess Matilda "Atheling" CAENMOR, Of Scotland,   b. Abt 1079-1080, Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 38 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1100	Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F3070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Count Geoffrey "Le Bon" D'ANJOU,   b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, France d. 7 Sep 1150, Chateau, Eure-Et-Loire, France (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	22 May 1127	, Le Mans, Sarthe, France
  Children	1. Agnes PLANTAGENET,   b. Abt 1130, <, Le Mans, Sarthe, France> d. 1192, Of, Anyore, , England (Age ~ 62 years)   2. King Henry PLANTAGENET, II,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France (Age 56 years)   3. Geoffrey VI "Mantell" PLANTAGENET ;[COUNT OF NANTES],   b. 3 Jun 1134, , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France d. 27 Jul 1157, , Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France (Age 23 years)   4. Guillaume PLANTAGENET ;[COUNT OF POITOU],   b. 22 Jul 1136, , Argentan, Orne, France d. 30 Jan 1163-1164, , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (Age 27 years)   5. Emma PLANTAGENET ;[PRINCESS OF WALES],   b. Abt 1138, Of, , Normandy, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3069	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

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  Queen Matilda of Normandie

  
  

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  Early Life Matilda was born in 1102, in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire. She was the daughter of King Henry I of England and Eadgith Dunkeld of Scotland. Her paternal grandparents were William the Conquerer King of England, and Mathilde Flandre of England. Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm Dunkeld King of Scotland, and Margaret Wessex. She was the oldest legitimate child of King Henry I, the younger being her brother, William, Duke of Normandie.[1][2][3] Her education in morals and letters, tempered with instruction in culture and religion began at an early age. The responsibility for Matilda and her brother William's spiritual care was appointed to Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury and former abbot of Bec.[1][4] First Marriage In 1109, when Matilda was about 7-years-old her father arranged her marriage to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany. The marriage arrangements were devised by Archbishop Anslem. Her dowry was set at 10,000 marks of silver. She married the 32-year-old Henry V, on the 7th of January in 1114 at the age of twelve, in Worms. She was crowned Empress a second time in 1117 with her husband at St Peter's Basilica, Rome. The Emperor died at Utrecht on 23 May 1125, leaving the young Empress a widow with no heir.[3][5][6][7] Becoming the Heir On 25 November 1120, Matilda's brother William Ætheling drowned after leaving Barfleur, Normandy on his way back to England. William sailed aboard the White Ship. The prince supplied the crew and passengers with barrels of wine. They were all intoxicated upon leaving Normandy. The captain hit a rock in the English Channel and the ship sank. All passengers and crew aboard drowned except for one survivor. William had been King Henry I's heir and one of his two legitimate children, the other being Matilda. At a time when it was not common for a woman to rule, the King desired to have his own legitimate child succeed him. The King wanted to secure his successor and in 1126, he declared Matilda his heir. On 1 January 1127 King Henry had his court swear to support his daughter as his heir to England and Normandy.[1][5][8][9] Second Marriage Her father was concerned with keeping his own royal lines Anglo-Saxon. The answer to protect his royal bloodline and join it with the Norman bloodline, thus keeping peace with Anjou was to betroth Matilda to Geoffrey d'Anjou in 1127. Geoffrey was the son of Fulk d'Anjou Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Ermengarde d'Maine. King Henry I, knighted Geoffrey in Rouen on Whitsunday, 10 June 1128. A week later in Le Mans on 17 June 1128, Matilda married Geoffrey. Upon their marriage, Geoffrey's father turned over the county of Anjou to him.[1][3][5][6] At Man, Main, France in March of 1133, they had a son Henry Plantagenet the future King of England.[2][10][9] Civil War Only a month after the death of Henry I in 1135, Stephen (his nephew and Matilda's cousin) rushed to take the throne, and be pronounced King. When Matilda's half-brother Robert, Earl of Gloucester, rebelled against Stephen, war broke out in 1136. Matilda arrived in England in 1139. After a series of battles Stephen was captured in February 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln. Her brother Robert was captured by Stephen's army.[11][12][13][14] Lady of the English During the summer of 1141, Matilda almost tasted success. With Stephen out of the way, she was now "Lady of the English." ... Only to turn around and blow it. That June, she rode into London with a bad attitude ... demanding money. It incensed the public and her coronation was met with the angry town folk. She fled to Oxford without being crowned the Queen of England as her father had intended.[12][15] Meanwhile... Stephen's wife hit the ground with an army from France. They caught the Earl of Gloucester, later ransomed in exchange for Stephen who had also been captured. Matilda escaped but her forces were routed at Winchester in September 1141. Thereafter she maintained a weak resistance out west.[12][16] 1 NOV 1141: Robert is exchanged for Stephen.[15] DEC 1142: Matilda escapes Oxford Castle and crosses the frozen Thames.[17] Stephen had his son, Eustace, crowned king while Stephen was still alive, but Eustace died in 1153. It was then decreed that Matilda's son, Henry II would inherit the throne after Stephen's death.[18][19][10] Death In 1148, after the death of her half-brother, Matilda left her son (Henry II) behind and returned to Normandy. She died at Notre Dame du Pré near Rouen on 10 September 1169 and was buried in Fontevrault Abbey. Her remains were moved to Rouen Cathedral in 1847.[20][21] Matilda's epitaph reads: "Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry."[12]

  
  

• Sources

  [S400] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).