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Empress Matilda  

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  • Matilda of England (1102–67), was the daughter of Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueror; her first marriage to the German Henry V made her Holy Roman Empress in 1114. Widowed and childless in 1125, Matilda returned to England. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Empress Matilda]

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