Holy Roman Empress Matilda of England

1102 - 1167  (65 years)

• Name	Matilda of England  [1]
  Title	Holy Roman Empress
  Birth	7 Feb 1102	London, England   [1]
  	(Winchester Castle)
  Gender	Female
  Notable Quote	Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry
  Name	Maud
  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]
  	Notre Dame
  Burial	France
  	Abbey of Bec-Hellouin
  		Abbaye du Bec
  Person ID	I8753	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  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	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	F2982	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
  Children	1. Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, and Lord of Ireland, and King of England Henry Plantagenet, II,   b. 5 Mar 1132, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France (Age 57 years)  [natural]   2. Count William Poitou Plantagenet,   b. 22 Jul 1136, Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France d. 30 Jan 1164, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 27 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4453	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 7 Feb 1102 - London, England Death - 10 Sep 1167 - Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Empress Matilda

  
  

  Places

  Abbaye du Bec

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Count William Poitou Plantagenet http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6024732199&indiv=try [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Matilda Scotland [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Henry I Beauclerc Plantagenet