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“A model of wisdom and exemplar of modesty without parallel in our time”: how Matilda of Flanders was represented in two twelfth-century histories

June 7, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England and wife of William the Conqueror, by Carle Elshoecht (1850). Luxembourg Garden, Paris. Photo by Tosca

My thesis investigates the different ways in which two twelfth-century historians, William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis, represented Matilda.

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Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy

March 19, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Matiilda of Flanders

One of the most influential and formidable medieval Queens of England was Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror.

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God and the Normans

November 22, 2011 By Medievalists.net

David Crouch reconsiders William I and his sons as men of genuine piety – as well as soldiers.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Domesday Book, Eleventh Century, England, France, High Middle Ages, Matilda of Flanders, Military History, Norman Conquest, Normans, Politics, Religious Life, Robert Curthose, Social History, Twelfth Century, War, William of Poitiers, William the Conqueror