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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Gone Medieval

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The Marriage of Matilda and Jeffrey

Matilda and Jeffrey didn't get on very well at all. They split up and she went back to Normandy still pointedly calling herself the empress not the Countess of Anju. She had two sons Henry in 1133 followed by Jeffrey in 1134 now this change is the whole political situation because she's now not just a woman she's a woman with sons they are Henry the first legitimate grandsons.

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