Matilda The Empress Age: 64 years11031167

Name
Matilda The Empress
Given names
Matilda The Empress
Birth about 1103 34 24
Death of a motherMatilda (Edith) Of Scotland
May 1, 1118 (Age 15 years)
MarriageGeoffrey V The Fair PlantagenetView this family
May 22, 1128 (Age 25 years)
Birth of a son
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Henry II Curtmantle Fitzempress
March 25, 1133 (Age 30 years)
Death of a fatherHenry I Beauclerc
December 1, 1135 (Age 32 years)
Acceded April 1141 (Age 38 years)

Death of a husbandGeoffrey V The Fair Plantagenet
September 7, 1151 (Age 48 years)
Marriage of a childHenry II Curtmantle FitzempressEleanor Of Aquitaine View this family
May 18, 1152 (Age 49 years)
Death September 10, 1167 (Age 64 years)
Burial
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Marriage: November 11, 1100Westminster Abbey, London, England
3 years
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herself
Marriage: May 22, 1128Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou
5 years
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  1. Generation 1
    1. Matilda The Empress , daughter of Henry I Beauclerc and Matilda (Edith) Of Scotland , was born about 1103 in Winchester, England and died on September 10, 1167 in Abbey Of Notre Dame Des Prés, Rouen. She married Geoffrey V The Fair Plantagenet, son of Fulk V The Younger Of Anjou Plantagenet and Ermengard Of Maine, on May 22, 1128 in Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou. He was born on August 24, 1113 and died on September 7, 1151 in Château-Du-Loir, France at the age of 38.

      Children of Matilda The Empress and Geoffrey V The Fair Plantagenet:

      1. Henry II Curtmantle Fitzempress (11331189)
  2. Generation 2back to top
    1. Henry II Curtmantle Fitzempress, son of Geoffrey V The Fair Plantagenet and Matilda The Empress , was born on March 25, 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou and died on July 6, 1189 in Chinon Castle, France at the age of 56. He married Eleanor Of Aquitaine on May 18, 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. She was born about 1122 in Chateau DE Belin, Guinne, France and died on April 1, 1204 in Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-Et-Loire, France.

      Children of Henry II Curtmantle Fitzempress and Eleanor Of Aquitaine :

      1. John I Plantagenet (11661216)
  3. Generation 3back to top
    1. John I Plantagenet, son of Henry II Curtmantle Fitzempress and Eleanor Of Aquitaine , was born on December 24, 1166 in Oxfordshire, England and died on October 19, 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England at the age of 49. He married 5 times. The first time he married Isabel Of Angouleme De Taillefer, daughter of William Of_gloucester Ayman, on August 26, 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was born in 1188 in Angouleme, France and died in 1246 in Fontevraud at the age of 58. The second time he married Isabella De Clare on August 29, 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire. She was born before 1176 and died on October 14, 1217. John I Plantagenet and Isabella De Clare were divorced in 1199. The third time he married Agatha Ferrers. The fourth time he married Suzanne De Warenne. The fifth time he married Hawise De Tracy.

      Children of John I Plantagenet and Isabel Of Angouleme De Taillefer:

      1. Henry III Plantagenet (12071272)
      2. Richard (12091272)
      3. Joan (12101238)
      4. Isabella (12141241)
      5. Eleanor (12151275)
Shared note

She was designated Henry's heir, and on his death (1135), Stephen siezed the throne and Matilda invaded England (1139) inuagurating a period of inconclusive civil war. She and he second husband (Geoffrey) captured normandy and in 1152 the Treaty of Wallingford recognised Henry as Stephen's heir. Burke says she was betrothed in her eight year (1119) to Henry.