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• Name	INGELRICA, Maud
  Prefix	Queen
  Birth	24 Nov 1031	Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  Christening	Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Gender	Female
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  Burial	Nov 1083	Abbey aux Dames, Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Death	2 Nov 1083	Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
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  Father	FLANDERS, Count Baldwin ,   b. 19 Aug 1012, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 1 Sep 1067, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 55 years)
  Mother	AUXERRE, Countess Adelaid Havoise ,   b. Abt 1003, Nevers, Nierre, France Nevers, Nierre, Franced. 5 Jun 1063, Nevers, Nierre, France (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	1028	Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France
  Family ID	F9148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	PEVERELL, Ranulph ,   b. 1030, Normandy, France Normandy, Franced. 1072, Essex, England (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1050	Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England
  Children	4 sons and 1 daughter
  + 1. PEVERELL, William de Nottingham ,   b. 1051, Normandy, France Normandy, Franced. 17 Apr 1113, England (Age 62 years)   2. PEVERELL, Pagan ,   b. 1060, Brunne, Cambridgeshire, England Brunne, Cambridgeshire, Englandd. Aft 1130, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England (Age > 71 years)   3. PEVERELL, Sir Robert ,   b. 1065, Brunne, Cambridgeshire, England Brunne, Cambridgeshire, Englandd. Bef 28 May 1318 (Age < 253 years)   4. PEVERELL, Hamon ,   b. 1067, Brunne, Cambridgeshire, England Brunne, Cambridgeshire, Englandd. 1136, Brunne, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 69 years)   5. PEVERELL, Emma ,   b. 1069, Brunne, Cambridgeshire, England Brunne, Cambridgeshire, Englandd. Aft 1130 (Age > 62 years)
  Family ID	F16354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders "Matilda of Flanders was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and sometime Regent of these realms during his absence. She was the mother of ten children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II and Henry I." "In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height using anthropometric methods. Her height was 5 feet (1.52m), a NORMAL HEIGHT for the time. However, as a result of this examination she was MISREPORTED as being 4 feet 2 inches (1.27m) leading to the MYTH that she was extremely small." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117262522 Matilda at 4'2" tall, was Britain's smallest adult Queen, according to the Guinness Book of Records. According to legend, Matilda (or "Maud") told the representative of William, Duke of Normandy (later king of England as William the Conqueror), who had come asking for her hand, that she was far too high-born (being descended from King Alfred the Great of England) to consider marrying a bastard. When that was repeated to him, William, rode from Normandy to Bruges, found Matilda on her way to church, dragged her off her horse by her long braids, threw her down in the street in front of her flabbergasted attendants, and then rode off. Another version of the story states that William rode to Matilda's father's house in Lille, threw her to the ground in her room (again, by the braids), and hit her (or violently shook her) before leaving. Naturally Baldwin took offense at this but, before they drew swords, Matilda settled the matter by deciding to marry him, and even a papal ban (on the grounds of consanguinity) did not dissuade her. They were married in 1053. There were rumours that Matilda had been in love with the English ambassador to Flanders, a Saxon named Brihtric, who declined her advances. Whatever the truth of the matter, years later when she was acting as Regent for William in England, she used her authority to confiscate Brihtric's lands and throw him into prison, where he died. When William was preparing to invade England, Matilda outfitted a ship, the Mora, out of her own money and gave it to him. For many years it was thought that she had something to do with creating the Bayeux Tapestry (commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French), but historians no longer believe that; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by Saxons in Kent. Matilda bore William eleven children, and he was believed to have been faithful to her, at least up until the time their son Robert rebelled against his father and Matilda sided with Robert against William. After she died, in 1083 at the age of 51, William became tyrannical, and people blamed it on his having lost her. Contrary to the belief that she was buried at St. Stephen's, also called l'Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen, Normandy, where William was eventually buried, she is intombed at l'Abbaye aux Dames, which is the Sainte-Trinité church, also in Caen. Of particular interest is the 11th century slab, a sleek black stone decorated with her epitaph, marking her grave at the rear of the church. It is of special note since the grave marker for William was replaced as recently as the beginning of the 19th century. Years later, their graves were opened and their bones measured, proving their physical statures. Same as this read only file: Queen Matilda of Flanders L8WB-MC1 1031 – 2 November 1083 . As a niece and granddaughter of kings of France, Matilda was of grander birth than William, who was illegitimate, and, according to some suspiciously romantic tales, she initially refused his proposal on this account. Her descent from the Anglo-Saxon royal House of Wessex was also to become a useful card. Like many royal marriages of the period, it breached the rules of consanguinity, then at their most restrictive (to seven generations or degrees of relatedness); Matilda and William were third-cousins, once removed. She was about 20 when they married in 1051/2; William was some four years older, and had been Duke of Normandy since he was about eight (in 1035). The marriage appears to have been successful, and William is not recorded to have had any bastards. Matilda was about 35, and had already borne most of her children, when William embarked on the Norman conquest of England, sailing in his flagship Mora, which Matilda had given him. She governed the Duchy of Normandy in his absence, joining him in England only after more than a year, and subsequently returning to Normandy, where she spent most of the remainder of her life, while William was mostly in his new kingdom. She was about 52 when she died in Normandy in 1083. Apart from governing Normandy and supporting her brother's interests in Flanders, Matilda took a close interest in the education of her children, who were unusually well educated for contemporary royalty. The boys were tutored by the Italian Lanfranc, who was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070, while the girls learned Latin in Sainte-Trinité Abbey in Caen, founded by William and Matilda as part of the papal dispensation allowing their marriage. Matilda of Flanders (French: Mathilde; Dutch: Machteld) (c. 1031 – 2 November 1083) was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and sometime Regent of these realms during his absence. She was the mother of ten children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II and Henry I. As a niece and granddaughter of kings of France, Matilda was of grander birth than William, who was illegitimate, and, according to some suspiciously romantic tales, she initially refused his proposal on this account. Her descent from the Anglo-Saxon royal House of Wessex was also to become a useful card. Like many royal marriages of the period, it breached the rules of consanguinity, then at their most restrictive (to seven generations or degrees of relatedness); Matilda and William were third-cousins, once removed. She was about 20 when they married in 1051/2; William was some four years older, and had been Duke of Normandy since he was about eight (in 1035). The marriage appears to have been successful, and William is not recorded to have had any bastards. Matilda was about 35, and had already borne most of her children, when William embarked on the Norman conquest of England, sailing in his flagship Mora, which Matilda had given him. She governed the Duchy of Normandy in his absence, joining him in England only after more than a year, and subsequently returning to Normandy, where she spent most of the remainder of her life, while William was mostly in his new kingdom. She was about 52 when she died in Normandy in 1083. Apart from governing Normandy and supporting her brother's interests in Flanders, Matilda took a close interest in the education of her children, who were unusually well educated for contemporary royalty. The boys were tutored by the Italian Lanfranc, who was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070, while the girls learned Latin in Sainte-Trinité Abbey in Caen, founded by William and Matilda as part of the papal dispensation allowing their marriage. Matilda, or Maud, was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, and Adela, herself daughter of King Robert II of France.[1] According to legend, when the Norman duke William the Bastard (later called the Conqueror) sent his representative to ask for Matilda's hand in marriage, she told the representative that she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard.[a] After hearing this response, William rode from Normandy to Bruges, found Matilda on her way to church, dragged her off her horse by her long braids, threw her down in the street in front of her flabbergasted attendants and rode off. Another version of the story states that William rode to Matilda's father's house in Lille, threw her to the ground in her room (again, by her braids) and hit her (or violently battered her) before leaving. Naturally, Baldwin took offence at this; but, before they could draw swords, Matilda settled the matter[2] by refusing to marry anyone but William;[3] even a papal ban by Pope Leo IX at the Council of Reims on the grounds of consanguinity did not dissuade her. William and Matilda were married after a delay in c. 1051–2.[4] A papal dispensation was finally awarded in 1059 by Pope Nicholas II.[5] Lanfranc, at the time prior of Bec Abbey, negotiated the arrangement in Rome and it came only after William and Matilda agreed to found two churches as penance.[6] There were rumours that Matilda had been in love variously with the English ambassador to Flanders and with the great Saxon thegn Brictric, son of Algar, who (according to the account by the Continuator of Wace and others[7]) in his youth declined her advances. Whatever the truth of the matter, years later when she was acting as regent for her husband William in England, she is said to have used her authority to confiscate Brictric's lands and throw him into prison, where he died.[8] When William was preparing to invade England, Matilda outfitted a ship, the Mora, out of her own funds and gave it to him.[9] Additionally, William gave Normandy to his wife during his absence. Matilda successfully guided the duchy through this period in the name of her fourteen-year-old son; no major uprisings or unrest occurred.[10] Even after William conquered England and became its king, it took her more than a year to visit the kingdom.[11] Despite having been crowned queen, she spent most of her time in Normandy, governing the duchy, supporting her brother's interests in Flanders, and sponsoring ecclesiastic houses there. Only one of her children was born in England; Henry was born in Yorkshire when Matilda accompanied her husband in the Harrying of the North.[12] Matilda was crowned queen on 11 May 1068 in Westminster during the feast of Pentecost, in a ceremony presided over by the archbishop of York. Three new phrases were incorporated to cement the importance of English consorts, stating that the Queen was divinely placed by God, shares in royal power, and blesses her people by her power and virtue.[13][14] For many years it was thought that she had some involvement in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry (commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French), but historians no longer believe that; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by English artists in Kent.[15] Matilda bore William nine or ten children. He was believed to have been faithful to her and never produced a child outside their marriage. Despite her royal duties, Matilda was deeply invested in her children's well-being. All were known for being remarkably educated. Her daughters were educated and taught to read Latin at Sainte-Trinité in Caen founded by Matilda and William in response to the recognition of their marriage.[16] For her sons, she secured Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury of whom she was an ardent supporter. Both she and William approved of the Archbishop's desire to revitalise the Church.[17] She stood as godmother for Matilda of Scotland, who would become Queen of England after marrying Matilda's son Henry I. During the christening, the baby pulled Queen Matilda's headdress down on top of herself, which was seen as an omen that the younger Matilda would be queen some day as well.[18] Matilda fell ill during the summer of 1083 and died in November 1083. Her husband was present for her final confession.[19] William died four years later in 1087. Contrary to the common belief that she was buried at St. Stephen's, also called l'Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen, Normandy, where William was eventually buried, she is entombed in Caen at l'Abbaye aux Dames, which is the community of Sainte-Trinité. Of particular interest is the 11th-century slab, a sleek black stone decorated with her epitaph, marking her grave at the rear of the church. In contrast, the grave marker for William's tomb was replaced as recently as the beginning of the 19th century. Over time Matilda's tomb was desecrated and her original coffin destroyed. Her remains were placed in a sealed box and reburied under the original black slab.[20] In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height using anthropometric methods. Her height was 5 feet (1.52m), a normal height for the time.[21] However, as a result of this examination she was misreported as being 4 feet 2 inches (1.27m)[22] leading to the myth that she was extremely small. Family and children: Matilda and William had four sons and at least five daughters.[23] The birth order of the boys is clear, but no source gives the relative order of birth of the daughters.[23] 1. Robert, born between 1051 and 1054, died 10 February 1134.[24] Duke of Normandy, married Sybil of Conversano, daughter of Geoffrey of Conversano.[25] 2. Richard, born c. 1054, died around 1075.[24] 3. William Rufus, born between 1056 and 1060, died 2 August 1100.[24] King of England, killed in the New Forest. 4. Henry, born late 1068, died 1 December 1135.[24] King of England, married Edith of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland. His second wife was Adeliza of Louvain.[26] 5. Agatha, betrothed to Harold II of England, Alfonso VI of Castile, and possibly Herbert I, Count of Maine, but died unmarried.[b][27] 6. Adeliza (or Adelida,[28] Adelaide[26]), died before 1113, reportedly betrothed to Harold II of England, probably a nun of St Léger at Préaux.[28] 7. Cecilia (or Cecily), born c. 1056, died 1127. Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen.[27] 8. Matilda,[28] "daughter of the King", born around 1061, died perhaps about 1086,[26] or else much later (according to Trevor Foulds's suggestion that she was identical to Matilda d'Aincourt[29]). 9. Constance, died 1090, married Alan IV Fergent, Duke of Brittany.[27] 10. Adela, died 1137, married Stephen, Count of Blois.[27] Mother of King Stephen of England. There is no evidence of any illegitimate children born to William.[30] William was furious when he discovered she sent large sums of money to their exiled son Robert.[31] She effected a truce between them at Easter 1080. Notes: a. Matilda's principal attribute was her descent from Charlemagne and her many royal ancestors, her closest being her grandfather Robert II of France. She was the niece of King Henry I of France, William's suzerain, and at his death in 1060, first cousin to his successor King Philip I of France. A member of the aristocracy she was closely related to most of the royal families of Europe. A marriage to a member of the (Carolingian) royal family was a means of upward mobility for a soldier or nobleman like William. Her descent from Alfred the Great (whose daughter Ælfthryth was the mother of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, and great-great-great-great-grandmother of Matilda) also proved a legitimizing factor as queen of England. See: Hilton, Queen Consort (Pegasus, 2010), p. 17; Régine Le Jan, 'Continuity and Change in the Tenth-Century Nobility', Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations, ed. Anne J. Duggan (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002), pp. 56, n. 14, 57; A. Wareham, Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia (Boydell Press, 2005), p. 3. b. It is not certain Adeliza and Agatha were not the same daughter, but if they were different daughters William of Jumièges seems to bear the responsibility for confusing the two. None of the daughter's ages are known according to Orderic Vitalis. See Douglas, William the Conqueror (1964), 395; Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol II (Henry G. Bohn, London, 1854), pp. 181–82 & 182 n. 1. References: 1. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafeln 5, 11, 81 2. Hilliam, Paul. William the Conqueror: First Norman King of England (NY: Rosen Publishing Group, 2005), p. 20, ISBN 1-4042-0166-1 3. Hilton, Lisa. Queen Consort (NY: Pegasus Books, LLC, 2010), p. 17, ISBN 978-1-60598-105-5 4. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166, Volume I, Domesday Book (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999), p. 495 5. Hilton, p. 18. 6. Bates, David. Normandy before 1066 (London; New York: Longman, 1982), p. 199 7. Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, part 2 (notes), 24,21, quoting "Freeman, E.A., The History of the Norman Conquest of England, 6 vols., Oxford, 1867–1879, vol. 4, Appendix, note 0" 8. Freeman, Edward Augustus. The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Vol. IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871), pp. 761–64 9. Elisabeth van Houts, 'The Ship List of William the Conqueror', Anglo-Norman Studies X; Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1987 (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 1988), p. 166 10. Hilton, pp. 31–32. 11. Honeycutt, Lois. Matilda of Scotland: a Study in Medieval Queenship (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 50 12. Hilton, p. 35. 13. Hilton, p. 33. 14. Honeycutt, p. 51. 15. Norton, Christopher. Archbishop Thomas of Bayeux and the Norman Cathedral at York (York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 2001), p. 3 16. Hilton, p. 29. 17. Lisa Hilton, Queen Consort (NY: Pegasus Books, LLC, 2010), p. 37, ISBN 978-1-60598-105-5 18. Lois Honeycutt, Matilda of Scotland: a Study in Medieval Queenship (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 10 19. Lisa Hilton, Queen Consort (NY: Pegasus Books, LLC, 2010), p. 39, ISBN 978-1-60598-105-5 20. John Dewhurst, 'A historical obstetric enigma: how tall was Matilda?', Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1981), pp. 271–72 21. John Dewhurst, 'A historical obstetric enigma: how tall was Matilda?', Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1981), pp. 271–72 22. David C. Douglas, William The Conqueror (Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), p. 370 23. David C. Douglas, William The Conqueror (Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), p. 393 24. David C. Douglas, William The Conqueror (Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), p. 394 25. Thompson "Robert, duke of Normandy (b. in or after 1050, d. 1134)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 26. Fryde; D.E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy, Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 35 ISBN 0-521-56350-X 27. David C. Douglas, William The Conqueror (Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), p. 395 28. Elisabeth van Houts, Adelida (Adeliza) (d. before 1113)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 29. Nottingham Medieval Studies 36: 42–78. Sharpe, Richard (2007). "King Harold's Daughter". Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History 19: 1–27 30. Chris Given-Wilson; Alice Curteis, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995), p. 59 ISBN 1-56619-962-X 31. "Matilda of Flanders, duchess of Normandy, queen of England", Epistolae, Columbia University.

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).