lochiels-deactivated20180429: Empress Matilda [Lady Of The English] She was commonly known as Maud a
lochiels-deactivated20180429:Empress Matilda [Lady Of The English]She was commonly known as Maud and was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England, who died on in 1169. Mother of Henry II of England. Empress of England, 1141. She was the first ever female ruler of England during the Civil War known as The Anarchy. She was succeeded by Stephen, but it was her son, Henry II, who founded the Plantagenet royal line in England. -- source link
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