Matilda of Scotland

Matilda was baptized “Edith” (Eadgyth), but was known as “Matilda” by her contemporaries.

Events

Date of Birth: probably late summer or autumn of 1080.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Huneycutt (ODNB), who notes that that is the only time that Matilda’s godfather, Robert Curthose, is known to have been in Scotland.

Date of Death: 1 May 1118.

Place of Death: Westminster.

The date and place are given by Huneycutt.

Place of Burial: Westminster Abbey.

Relationships

Father: Malcolm III, king of Scots (died 1093).

This relationship is given by Huneycutt (ODNB) and Baldwin.

Mother: Margaret (died 1093).

This relationship is given by Huneycutt (ODNB) and Baldwin.

Spouse: Henry I, king of England. Married 11 November 1100 at Westminster Abbey.

This relationship is given by Hollister, Huneycutt (ODNB), van Houts (p. 269), and by Baldwin. The date and place are given by Huneycutt and Baldwin.

Children:

(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.)

Matilda (about 8 February 1102 - 10 September 1167) married (1) Emperor Heinrich V in 1114; married (2) Geoffrey V “Plantagenet”, count of Anjou, in 1127.

William “Ætheling” (23 November 1103 - 25 November 1120).

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Eadgyth/Matilda of Scotland” in The Henry Project.

Hollister, C. Warren. “Henry I (1068/9 - 1135)”, 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).

Huneycutt, Lois L. Matilda of Scotland: A Study in Medieval Queenship (The Boydell Press, 2003).

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.