Stay ConnectedToo often when we think about the history of a country we think only of kings, lords, castles, and battles. When we think of queens we think of rulers like Elizabeth I and Victoria, but what about the queens who sat beside their warrior husbands? This podcast is an alternative history of Medieval and Early Modern England, seen through the lives of its queens
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In 1100, Henry I became King of England after the suspicious death of William Rufus, but his accession was contested. To help placate his Anglo-Saxon subjects, he chose as his queen one of their own, the Scottish princess Matilda. She would prove to be far more than just dynastic window-dressing, becoming one of the most powerful queens in English mediaeval history.
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Malcom III in Macbeth (wikipedia)
Alan the Red (Historical Britain Blog)
Who killed William Rufus? (History in an Hour Blog)
Coronation Charter of Henry I, also known as the Charter of Liberties
Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury (wikipedia)
Investiture Controversy (wikipedia)
William of Malmesbury (wikipedia)
Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate (wikipedia)
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Following the Norman Conquest, Matilda became the first Norman Queen of England, and while her husband secured his new Kingdom, she kept things ticking over in the Duchy. Things were going pretty well, until her favourite son and her husband's relationship fell apart, putting her in the middle of a war that ripped the family apart, and threatened to destroy everything she had built.
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Harold swears the oath on holy relics from the Bayeux Tapestry
The Mora from the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry
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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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What did it mean to be a queen in Mediaeval England? This seems at first to be a really easy question to answer: you had to marry a King. Simple right? But when you dig deeper this turns out to be a very superficial answer because it doesn't really answer the fundamental aspect of the question.
In this episode we discover the traits and qualities that a queen was supposed to have in Mediaeval England, and examine what kinds of power they could wield
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So this is my first episode! I'm so excited to get started on the show. This episode is just a brief introduction to me and what the show is about.
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