The Empress Matilda Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English

by Chibnall, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780631190288
• ISBN10: 0631190287
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is the first comprehensive and fully documented study of the Empress Matilda to be published in English. Much of the serious work on her life and historical importance has never been translated from German, and almost all has concentrated on the years of her struggle with Stephen for the English crown. This book examines her career as a whole, including the years as consort of the Emperor Henry V and as regent in Normandy for her son Henry II. It illustrates the problems of female succession in the early twelfth century, and gives a balanced assessment of Matilda's character and achievements in the context of her own times.

Author Biography

Marjorie Chibnall is Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and has also lectured in the universities of Southampton and Aberdeen. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and her most recent books include The World of Orderic Vitalis and Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vi
List of Maps	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Genealogical Tables	p. ix
The English succession
The Salian emperors
The counts of Flanders
Introduction	p. 1
Great by Birth	p. 5
Greater by Marriage	p. 18
Political Inheritance	p. 45
Disputed Succession	p. 64
Lady of the English	p. 88
Lordship and Governance in a Divided Realm	p. 118
Greatest in her Offspring	p. 143
Personal Patronage	p. 177
The Empress in History	p. 195
Bibliography of Abbreviated Titles	p. 207
Index	p. 216
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