Matilda of Tuscany
Canossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
- Fame59.6
- Momentum8.7
- Politicians rank#117
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- Fame59.6
- Momentum8.7
- Politicians rank#117
- Wikipedia26.7K
Lived 1040–1115, aged 75
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She held the line for the papacy when popes and emperors were tearing Europe apart. Matilda of Tuscany commanded armies, brokered the most famous act of penance in medieval history, and died controlling a swath of Italy so valuable that crowns fought over it for another century.
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Born around 1046 into the House of Canossa, Matilda inherited a margraviate spanning present-day Lombardy, Emilia, Romagna, and Tuscany, ruling from Canossa Castle in the Apennines. When Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in 1076, she became the papacy's chief military and political backer. Henry's penitential walk to Canossa in January 1077 — the symbolic climax of the Investiture Controversy — happened at her gates, and she brokered his temporary reconciliation with the Church. When the truce collapsed in 1080, she committed all her forces to Gregory's cause, turning…
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