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Children [ edit ]. Ogive of Luxembourg politician. Like many royal marriages of the period, it breached the rules of consanguinity , then at their most restrictive to seven generations or degrees of relatedness ; Matilda and William were third-cousins once removed. Main page Welcome Community portal Village pump Help center. Adela of Normandy Countess of Blois from to Upload media.

Norman Conquest. Handbook of British Chronology 3rd ed. She governed the Duchy of Normandy in his absence, joining him in England after more than a year, to be crowned in an elaborate ceremony.

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Pegasus Books. Three new phrases were incorporated to cement the importance of a queen, stating that she was divinely placed by God, shared in royal power, and blessed her people by her power and virtue. Gillingham, John Hilliam, David New York: D. Royal consorts in Scotland until Cambridge: University Press. ISBN Historians have regarded the tale as more fictional than historical; the marriage itself may in fact have been arranged by William and Baldwin, as both would have welcomed an alliance between Flanders and Normandy.

Mathilde of Blois [d] countess d. Maud of Flanders; Matilda.

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Cambridge University Press. A marriage to a member of the Carolingian royal family was a means of upward mobility for a soldier or nobleman like William. William I of England m. British royal consorts after the Acts of Union Woodbridge: Boydell Press. Keats-Rohan, K. Even after William conquered England and became its king, she delayed her visit to her new kingdom until she could be crowned on Pentecost Whit Sunday in , almost two years after it was won.

London: Henry G. In contrast, the grave marker for William's tomb was replaced as recently as the beginning of the 19th century.