Brief Life History of Matilda of England
When Matilda of England Duchess of Saxony was born on 6 January 1156, in Windsor, Berkshire, England, her father, Henry II King of England, was 22 and her mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was 34. She married Heinrich XII. der Löwe Herzog von Bayern und Sachsen on 1 February 1168, in Minden, Minden-Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 28 June 1189, in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany, at the age of 33, and was buried in Brunswick, Brunswick, Germany.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Matilda (Maud) Plantagenet Prss Eng Lady - birth: June 1156; London, Middlesex, England
- Mathilda Plantagenet, "Find A Grave Index"
- Wikipedia (D) - Mathilde Plantagenet
Name Meaning
Latinized form of a Germanic personal name derived from maht, meht ‘might’ + hild ‘battle’. This was the name of an early German queen ( 895–968 ), wife of Henry the Fowler, who was noted for her piety and generosity. It was also the name of the wife of William the Conqueror and of the daughter of Henry I of England ( see Maud ). The name was introduced into England by the Normans, and this Latinized form is the one that normally occurs in medieval records, while the vernacular form Maud was the one in everyday use. Matilda was revived in England as a learned form in the 18th century.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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Matilda of England (German: Mathilde von England, also called Maud; 6 January 1156 – 28 June 1189) was the eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Through her marriage wi …
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