biography
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Matilda
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also called Maud
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1102–67)
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| biography:
| English princess, born in London, UK, the only daughter of Henry I. In 1114 she married Emperor Henry V, but returned to England after his death in 1125, and was acknowledged as the heir to the English throne. She married Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou (1128), by whom she had a son, the future Henry II of England. When Henry I died (1135), his nephew Stephen of Blois seized the throne, and in 1139 Matilda invaded England from Anjou. After capturing Stephen, she declared herself ‘Lady of the English’, but was never crowned. Stephen gradually regained control, and in 1148 Matilda left England for Normandy. |
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