The Empress Matilda

Events

Date of Birth: about 8 February 1102.

Place of Birth: London.

This date and place are given by Baldwin. Chibnall gives about 7 February 1102, probably at Sutton Courtenay. Huneycutt gives the birth place as near Abingdon.

Date of Death: 10 September 1167.

Place of Death: Rouen.

The date is given by Chibnall and Baldwin. The place is given by Baldwin.

Place of Burial: Bec.

The place is given by Chibnall and Baldwin.

Relationships

Father: Henry I of England (1068/9 - 1135).

This relationship is given by Chibnall, by Keats-Rohan (p. 1008), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Matilda of Scotland (1080 - 1118).

This relationship is given by Chibnall, by Keats-Rohan (p. 1008), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1125). Married 6 or 7 January 1114 at Worms.

This relationship is given by Chibnall, by Keats-Rohan (p. 1008), and by Baldwin, who also gives the date of marriage. The place is given by Chibnall. (Baldwin gives Mainz, but Chibnall notes that this is where Matilda was crowned again after already being married at Worms.)

Spouse: Geoffroy V, count of Anjou (died 1151). This relationship is given by Chibnall, by Keats-Rohan (p. 1008), and by Baldwin. Chibnall states that the couple were married 17 June 1128 at Le Mans. Baldwin gives a date of around Pentecost 1127, at Winchester.

Children: (by Geoffroy)

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Henry II (1133 - 1183) married Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152. Henry was king of England 1154-1183.

Geoffroy (1 June 1134 - July 1158). Geoffroy was count of Nantes.

Guillaume (22 July 1136 - 30 January 1164).

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Matilda of England (The Empress Matilda)” in The Henry Project.

Chibnall, Marjorie. “Matilda (1102-1167)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Huneycutt, Lois L. “Matilda (1080-1118)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).