Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England

1032 - 1083  (51 years)

• Name	Matilda of Flanders
  Suffix	Queen Consort of England
  Birth	1032  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Nov 1083  [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Alternate death	3 Nov 1083  [1, 2]
  Burial	Abbey of Sainte-Trinitie, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France   [3]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Baldwin VI ,   b. Abt 1030   d. 10 Jul 1070  (Age ~ 40 years) ▻ Richilde of Egesheim ,  m. Abt 1055 + 2. Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England ,   b. 1032   d. 2 Nov 1083  (Age 51 years) ▻ William I, King of England ,  m. Abt 1050 + 3. Robert I "The Frisian" ,   b. Abt 1035   d. 3 Oct 1093  (Age ~ 58 years) ▻ Gertrude of Saxony ,  m. 1063
  Person ID	I4017	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Baldwin V,   b. Abt 1010   d. 1 Sep 1067, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age ~ 57 years)
  Mother	St. Adele of France,   b. Abt 1003   d. Abt 1063 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Marriage	1028	Paris, France   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F1739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William I, King of England,   b. 1027-1028, Falais, Calvados, Normandy, France d. 9 Sep 1087, St. Gervais, near Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1050  [3, 7, 8]
  Children	1. Alice   d. Bef 1113, Abbey of St. Leger, Preaux, Normandy, France   2. Cecily   d. 30 Jul 1126   3. Matilda + 4. Robert Curthose,   b. in or Aft 1050   d. Abt 3 Feb 1134, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (Age ~ 83 years)   5. Richard,   b. Abt 1055   d. 1069-1075, New Forest, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 20 years)   6. William II "Rufus", King of England,   b. Abt 1060   d. 2 Aug 1100, The New Forest, England (Age ~ 40 years)   7. Constance,   b. 1061   d. 13 Aug 1090 (Age 29 years) + 8. Adela of Normandy,   b. Abt 1061   d. 8 Mar 1137, Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France (Age ~ 76 years) + 9. Henry I, King of England,   b. 1068   d. 1 Dec 1135, Lyon-la-Forêt, near Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F409	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  She was about four feet tall, probably accounting for the short stature reported of some of her children, notably including Robert "Curthose" and probably including William Rufus as well.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S3209] Ancestor Table: Hansen by Charles M. Hansen. Sausalito, California, 2017. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart. [S764] Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Dynastic Chronology: Western Europe, X - XIII Centuries.", year only. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., "between October 1049 and 1051". [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., "m. 1053".