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Queen Matilda had kept her husband's cause alive in the south-east of England, and the Queen, backed by her lieutenant William of Ypres and reinforced with fresh troops from London, took the opportunity to advance on Winchester. [163] Their forces encircled Matilda's army. [164]
Matilda was crowned queen on 11 May 1068 in Westminster during the feast of Pentecost, in a ceremony presided over by the archbishop of York. Three new phrases were incorporated to cement the importance of a queen, stating that she was divinely placed by God, shared in royal power, and blessed her people by her power and virtue.
Matilda was crowned queen at Easter, on 22 March 1136. [1] Matilda was a supporter of the Knights Templar. She founded Cressing Temple in Essex in 1137 and Temple Cowley in Oxford in 1139. [2] Like her predecessor, Matilda of Scotland, she had a close relationship with the Holy Trinity Priory at Aldgate. She took the prior as her confessor and ...
The title of queen puzzled the English, as the king's wife had traditionally been granted no special status in England. Matilda's coronation, the first for a queen consort of England after Edith of Wessex, was held at Westminster Abbey on Whit Sunday, 11 May. The liturgy followed a similar pattern to that of William and was conducted by Ealdred ...
Queen Matilda may refer to: Matilda (877–968), Saint Matilda, Queen of Eastern Francia; Matilda of Frisia (died 1044), Queen of the Franks, wife of King Henry I; Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031–1083), Queen of the English, wife of William the Conqueror; Maud of Northumbria (c. 1074–1130/1131), Queen of Scotland, wife of King David I
Matilda of Scotland (originally christened Edith, [a] 1080 – 1 May 1118), also known as Good Queen Maud, was Queen consort of England and Duchess of Normandy as the first wife of King Henry I. She acted as regent of England on several occasions during Henry's absences: in 1104, 1107, 1108, and 1111.
Matilda and the earl probably assumed that she would be safe in Oxford until he returned. [48] This was a crucial period for Matilda, says King, [49] and Gloucester's absence weakened her force further: he left for Normandy on 24 June to negotiate with Anjou, despite, says Crouch, Matilda's situation being "desperate". [50]
Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in London or, less likely, at Windsor Castle, [2] as third child and eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; [2] [3] [4] named after her paternal grandmother, Empress Matilda, she was baptized shortly after birth in Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury.