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The Connections of Empress Matilda
Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne Every person recorded alongside Empress Matilda in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Empress Matilda in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Henry I of England, Matilda of Scotland
- Spouses
- Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
- Children
- Henry II of England, Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, William FitzEmpress, Emma of Anjou
- Siblings
- William Adelin, Alice FitzRoy, Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, Matilda FitzRoy, Duchess of Brittany, Matilda FitzRoy, Abbess of Montvilliers, Sybilla of Normandy, Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Henry FitzRoy, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Fulk FitzRoy
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1102 to 1167.
Medieval era
Al-Ghazali
1058 – December 19, 1111
Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
Medieval era
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – September 17, 1179
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Medieval era
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1124 – April 1, 1204
Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
Medieval era
Richard the Lionheart
September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
Medieval era
King John of England
December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216
King of England from 1199 to 1216
Medieval era
Frederick Barbarossa
1122 – June 10, 1190
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Medieval era
Saladin
1138 – March 4, 1193
Sultan who united the Muslim world and retook Jerusalem with famed chivalry
Medieval era
Genghis Khan
May 31, 1162 – August 25, 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history
Medieval era
Omar Khayyam
May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Medieval era
Maimonides
March 30, 1138 – December 13, 1204
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
Medieval era
Averroes
April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Medieval era
Moinuddin Chishti
February 1, 1143 – March 15, 1236
Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)