Matilda's Life in the Empire

When Emperor Henry died Matilda was left as a childless widow which is a precarious position so where did she see her future remaining in the Empire at this point. She could have retired quietly to her Dower estates and lived quietly or she could have done what a lot of royal widows did and go to a nunnery either just to live there or to take holy orders she's 23 you can't do anything with that age. At 16 whether that line of as you say she's the other side of the Alps in Italy does she feel detached enough from the Emperor to start to feel like she's wielding power in her own right? I don't think she was overawed by this at