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Matilde de Escocia (Dunfermline, c. 1080-Palacio de Westminster, 1 de mayo de 1118), bautizada Edith, fue reina consorte de Inglaterra entre 1100 y 1118. Después de su muerte, es recordada con apelativos como "Matilde la Buena Reina" o "Matilde de Bendita Memoria".
- Matilda of Scotland
- Adela de Lovaina
Era hija de Enrique I, rey de Inglaterra y duque de Normandía, y su primera esposa, Matilde de Escocia. [6] [ii] Enrique I era el hijo menor de Guillermo I el Conquistador, quien invadió Inglaterra en 1066 y creó una especie de imperio que se extendía hasta Gales.
Matilde de Escocia ( Dunfermline, c. 1080- Palacio de Westminster, 1 de mayo de 1118), bautizada Edith, fue reina consorte de Inglaterra entre 1100 y 1118. Después de su muerte, es recordada con apelativos como "Matilde la Buena Reina" o "Matilde de Bendita Memoria".
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Childhood
Born in 1080, in Dunfermline, Scotland, Matilda's parents were King Malcolm III and Margaret of Wessex. She was therefore a descendant of both the Scottish and the Anglo-Saxon royal families, great-granddaughter of Edmund Ironside and descended from Alfred the Great. The Scottish princess was christened Edith. Present at the baptismal font were Robert Curthose standing as her godfather, and Queen Matilda of Englandas her godmother. The infant Edith pulled at Matilda's headdress, which was see...
Succession crisis
During her stay at Romsey and later at Wilton Abbey, the still 13-year-old Edith was much sought-after as a bride, with Hériman of Tournai claiming that even King William II of England considered marrying her. She refused proposals from William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and Alan Rufus, Lord of Richmond. However, her parents betrothed Edith to the latter in 1093. Before the marriage could take place, both her father and older brother Edward were killed at the Battle of Alnwick in Novembe...
After William II's death in the New Forest in August 1100, his brother Henry immediately seized the royal treasury and crown. He was manipulative and profoundly clever, known for his strict but proper government and utterly merciless nature in case of war or rebellion. His next task was to marry and his choice was Edith, whom he had known for some ...
Edith and Henry were married on 11 November 1100 at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury. At the end of the ceremony, Edith was crowned and took the regnal name of "Matilda", a hallowed Norman name. The exact reason for the name change remains unclear, though historians suspect she did it in an attempt to please her Norman subjects ...
While Henry had numerous illegitimate children by various mistresses,he and Matilda had two children who reached adulthood: 1. Matilda(7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167) 2. William Adelin(5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120) The couple may have also had a stillborn child in July 1101. Some historians, such as Chibnall, have claimed that there was no...
On 1 May 1118, Matilda died at Westminster Palace. Allegedly, three of her Anglo-Saxon ladies-in-waiting were so distraught by the Queen's death that they immediately became nuns. She would have liked to have been buried at Holy Trinity, Aldgate, but King Henry asked for her to be buried at Westminster Abbey near Edward the Confessor.The inscriptio...
Margot, Arnold (1993). Queen Consorts of England: the Power Behind the Throne. Facts on File. ISBN 0816029008.Chibnall, Marjorie (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother, and Lady of the English. Oxford, UK Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631157373. OCLC 29924153.Green, Judith (2006). Henry I : King of England and Duke of Normandy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521591317. OCLC 61757059.Hilton, Lisa (2010). Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York. New York, NY: Pegasus Books LLC. ISBN 9781605981055. OCLC 649718519.Matilda 3 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon EnglandMedieval Women: The Life Of St Margaret, Queen Of Scotland By Turgot, Bishop of St Andrews Ed. William Forbes-Leith, S.J. Third Edition. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1896 . Retrieved 14 March 2011.Portraits of Matilda of Scotland at the National Portrait Gallery, London22 de mar. de 2020 · Matilde, junto con el apoyo de Godofredo, volvió a Inglaterra para arrebatarle el trono a su primo. Esteban fracasó en mantener el control sobre Normandía e Inglaterra y Matilde comenzó a ganar adeptos, entre ellos, el del conde de Gloucester. Tras desafiar a Esteban en público, Matilde consiguió reunir toda la ayuda necesaria para ...
- Marcelo Ferrando Castro
Edith de Mercia: Sucesor: Matilde de Escocia: Duquesa consorte de Normandía; 1051-1083: Predecesor: Adela de Flandes: Sucesor: Sibila de Conversano: Información personal; Nacimiento: c. 1031: Fallecimiento: 2 de noviembre de 1083 Caen, Inglaterra: Sepultura: Abadía de la Santísima Trinidad, Caen: Familia; Padre: Balduino V de Flandes: Madre ...
31 de may. de 2020 · En 1127, los grandes hombres de Inglaterra y Normandía, juraban solemnemente fidelidad a Matilde, única hija legítima del rey Enrique I. Un juramento que se repetiría cuatro años después pero que quedaría en papel mojado. Más fuerte era la tradición y la misoginia que el derecho de una mujer al trono.
