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Empress Matilda (Empress Maud) Timeline

Chronology of the Life of Matilda, Lady of the English - 2

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

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1148 - Matilda retired to Normandy, living near Rouen

1140 - Henry Fitzempress, eldest son of Matilda and Geoffrey, named duke of Normandy

1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou died, and Henry, who becomes known as Henry Plantagenet, inherited his title as Count of Anjou

1152 - Henry of Anjou, in another dramatic episode, married Eleanor of Aquitaine, a few months after her marriage to Louis VII, King of France, was ended.

1152? - Eustace, son of Stephen and his legitimate heir, died

1153 - Treaty of Winchester (or the Treaty Wallingford) named Matilda's son Henry heir to Stephen, bypassing Stephen's much younger son, William, and agreeing that Stephen should remain king for the duration of his own lifetime and that his son William would keep his father's lands in France

1154 - Stephen died unexpectedly of a heart attack (October 25), and Henry Fitzempress became king of England, Henry II, the first Plantagenet king

September 10, 1167 - Matilda died and was buried in Rouen at Fontevrault Abbey

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