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Duchess of Saxony and BavariaTemplate:SHORTDESC:Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria
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Matilda depicted at her wedding in the Gospels of Henry the Lion | |
| Tenure | 1 February 1168 – 1180 |
| Born | June 1156 London, England |
| Died | June/July 1189 (aged 32–33) Brunswick, Duchy of Saxony |
| Burial | Brunswick Cathedral, Lower Saxony |
| Spouse | Henry the Lion (m. 1168) |
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| House | Plantagenet / Angevin[note 1] |
| Father | Henry II of England |
| Mother | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Matilda of England (June 1156 – June/July 1189) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet[lower-alpha 1] and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Life[]
Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in London or, less likely, at Windsor Castle, as third child and eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; named after her paternal grandmother, Empress Matilda, she was baptized shortly after birth in Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throneTemplate:SHORTDESC:Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
"Matilda of England" redirects here. For other uses, see Matilda of England (disambiguation).
Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud,[nb 1] was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy, she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with the emperor to Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned empress in St Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry V had no children, and when he died in 1125, the imperial crown was claimed by his rival Lothair of Supplinburg.
Matilda's younger and only full brother, William Adelin, died in the White Ship disaster of 1120, leaving Matilda's father and realm facing a potential succession crisis. Upon her widowhood in the Holy Roman Empire, Matilda was recalled to Normandy by her father, who arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou to form an alliance to protect his southern borders in France. Henry I had
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