Empress Matilda
Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
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She was crowned Holy Roman Empress, named heir to the English throne by her father, captured her usurper cousin in battle — and still never got the crown. Matilda spent two decades fighting a civil war for a throne she'd been promised, came within steps of Westminster Abbey, then watched her enemies close the door.
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Matilda was sent to Germany as a child to marry the future Emperor Henry V, travelled with him to Italy in 1116, and was crowned empress at St Peter's Basilica. After Henry V died in 1125 and her brother William Adelin drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120, her father Henry I of England recalled her, married her to Geoffrey of Anjou, and made his court swear loyalty to her as his heir. When Henry I died in 1135, her cousin Stephen seized the throne with the backing of the English Church. She invaded England in 1139, captured Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, but faced riots when s…
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