Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

✍ Scribed by Hanley, Catherine

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the first woman ever to hold the position—and an able military general.

This new biography explores Matilda’s achievements as military and political leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers, and her role in the succession crisis. Hanley highlights how Matilda fought for the throne, and argues that although she never sat on it herself her reward was to see her son become king. Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page......Page 1
Halftitle page......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
MAPS AND TABLES......Page 9
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
chapter one THE CHILD EMPRESS......Page 32
chapter two CRISIS IN ENGLAND......Page 54
chapter three HEIR TO THE THRONE......Page 71
chapter four USURPED......Page 98
chapter five RETURN TO ENGLAND......Page 124
chapter six 1141: TRIUMPH......Page 150
Plates......Page 162
chapter seven 1141: DISASTER......Page 188
chapter eight A FRESH APPROACH......Page 208
chapter nine THE NEW GENERATION......Page 232
chapter ten ‘THE GOOD MATILDA’......Page 254
CONCLUSION......Page 268
SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS......Page 282
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 287
INDEX......Page 299

✦ Subjects

History;Nonfiction;Biography;European Literature;British Literature;Historical;Medieval;Medieval History;European History;Cultural;France