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3 - Matilda of Flanders (1): Wife of the Bastard, Duchess of Normandy
Matilda of Flanders was born to a family that counted as branches of it's family tree practically every important noble house in Northern Europe and so life was expected to be breeze. But as we'll find out, Matilda rarely did things the easy way.
This episode looks at some of her immediate predecessors as Queen of England, before covering at the great controversy surrounding her marriage to William the Bastard of Normandy, finally looking at some of her actions as Duchess before the Norman invasion of England.
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Ancestry of Matilda of Flanders
Nineteenth century picture of Matilda
Map of Eleventh Century France (courtesy of Shepherd, William R. Historical Atlas, (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1929)
Family tree of the Dukes of Normandy up to William
Abbeys of Sainte-Trinité and St Etienne
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