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forced her to wear a veil. Strong-willed, Edith was ready to fight for her status as a marriageable woman rather than staying in a monastery, despite the fact that her aunt insisted she "was a veiled nun, and that it would be an act of sacrilege to remove her from her convent." When
Archbishop Anselm
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said that Henry had "long adored" her character and capacity. Some sources add that she was "not bad looking" despite that she did not improve her appearance through face painting. It is possible that Edith spent time at
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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
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that she had left". Edith did not return to Wilton, however, and is largely unaccounted for in chronicles until 1100. As her home in
Scotland was held by her uncle, it is possible, likely even, that Edith joined her brothers at the English court of William Rufus, who supported her brother Edgar in
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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 and husband. By
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in order to determine the canonical legality of the proposed marriage and ordered two inquiries at Wilton to get first-hand information on the matter. Edith testified that she had never taken holy vows, insisting that her parents had sent her to
England for educational purposes and her aunt had
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sent envoys to Henry I proposing a marriage alliance between himself and the King's daughter
Matilda. He also wrote separately to Queen Matilda on the same matter. The match was attractive to the English king: by marrying his daughter to one of the most prestigious monarchs in Europe, it would
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Canterbury returned to England after a long exile, she sought him out to convince him that she had never been a nun. In fact, she had not only been forced to wear a veil, but her father had "ripped off the offensive headdress and tore it to shreds" at sight of her being veiled.
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Chibnall, have claimed that there was no pregnancy before the one with Empress Matilda "as it allows no time for a normal second pregnancy". Through Matilda, the
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Confessor. The inscription on her tomb reads: "Here lies the renowned queen Matilda the second, excelling both young and old of her day. She was for everyone the benchmark of morals and the ornament of life."
684:. Additionally, King Henry made numerous grants to the Queen, including substantial property in London, a political move made in order to win over the unruly Londoners who were vehement supporters of the Wessex Kings.
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England, but a bride with ties to the ancient Wessex line would increase his popularity with the English and help to reconcile the Normans and Anglo-Saxons. Edith was a great-granddaughter of
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reaffirm his own, slightly dubious, status as the youngest son of a new royal house, and it would gain him an ally in his conflicts with France. In return, Henry V would receive a dowry of 10,000
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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
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was abbess. Their studies went beyond the standard feminine pursuits of the time, which was not surprising since their mother was a great lover of books. The princesses learned the
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289:, which would help legitimize his rule. After proving she had not taken religious vows, Matilda and Henry were married. As Queen of England, Matilda embarked on several
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but it did incorporate lordship rights, which allowed her to administer her properties. Most of her dower estates were granted from lands previously held by
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and forced her to wear a veil. In 1093, Matilda was engaged to an English nobleman until her father and her brother Edward were killed in the
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insisted that Queen Matilda had in fact been a nun and that her daughter, Empress Matilda, was therefore not a legitimate successor to the
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usurped the throne of Scotland, and her surviving brothers, Edgar, Alexander, and David, were sent to England to the court of King
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1977:Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens
1887:Strickland, Agnes; Strickland, Elisabeth (1852).
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592:veiled her to protect her "from the lust of the
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2027:Portraits of Matilda of Scotland
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170:William Adelin, Duke of Normandy
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2674:Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach
2139:28 September 1106 – 1 May 1118
1820:. London, UK: Hambledon Press.
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2669:George of Denmark and Norway
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2784:12th-century Scottish women
2774:11th-century Scottish women
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1789:Huneycutt, Lois L. (2003).
801:The Voyage of Saint Brendan
165:Matilda, Holy Roman Empress
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102:1 May 1118 (aged 37–38)
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2319:Berengaria of Navarre
2231:Æthelflæd of Damerham
2128:Sibylla of Conversano
1893:. Lea and Blanchard.
1816:Leyser, Karl (1982).
1259:, pp. 17–18, 28.
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2301:Geoffrey Plantagenet
2045:Matilda of Scotland
1760:Hollister, C. Warren
1419:, pp. 195–197;
1109:, pp. 126, 128.
874:. During his reign,
837:were related to the
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701:Holy Trinity Aldgate
676:Matilda had a small
436:financial management
2809:Scottish princesses
2597:Union of the Crowns
2544:Madeleine of Valois
2534:Margaret of Denmark
2489:Margaret of England
2469:Maud of Northumbria
2464:Sybilla of Normandy
2401:Catherine of Aragon
2386:Elizabeth Woodville
2376:Catherine of Valois
2336:Eleanor of Provence
2295:Matilda of Boulogne
2285:Matilda of Scotland
2280:Matilda of Flanders
2091:Matilda of Flanders
1599:, pp. 139–140.
1094:, pp. 102–104.
507:Bishop of Salisbury
378:and descended from
266:in 1093. Her uncle
229:Duchess of Normandy
213:Matilda of Scotland
35:Matilda of Scotland
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2814:Henry I of England
2799:Daughters of kings
2655:Acts of Union 1707
2499:Elizabeth de Burgh
2454:Margaret of Wessex
2366:Isabella of Valois
2351:Isabella of France
2346:Margaret of France
2341:Eleanor of Castile
2330:Blanche of Castile
2313:Margaret of France
2290:Adeliza of Louvain
2251:Sigrid the Haughty
2146:Title next held by
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1670:Chibnall, Marjorie
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