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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Gone Medieval

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The Ancient Podcast

King Henry and Matilda spent about a year in each other's company which would have been enough for him to get to know her. At the end of 1126 at his Christmas court he declared officially that Matilda was the heir to the English throne and named her as his heir. On New Year's Day 1127 all of the barons of his court swore that they would accept her as the heir, Tristan says. The ancient podcast is one of these great things from pay it's kind of forever rising from the dead and from destruction we've got.

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