![]() ![]() Matilda, unlikely as it seems, then accepted his proposal and they were married. He is said to have thrown her to the ground, before pulling her braids and cutting her with his spurs. As the legend goes on hearing this, William was so infuriated that he rode to Flanders and confronted Matilda. ![]() There is a popular story of how Matilda refused to marry William, Duke of Normandy, stating that she was too highly born to marry a bastard. The first time Matilda appears on the world stage is when her marriage is being discussed. As is often the case with medieval women, we know very little of Matilda’s early life, though it is likely she was raised alongside her aunt, Judith, her father’s sister who was of a similar age to Matilda, and who would go on to marry Tostig, Earl of Nurthumberland and brother of king Harold II. ![]() Matilda had two brothers and each of them became Count of Flanders in his turn Baldwin of Mons and Robert the Frisian. ![]() Born in the early to mid-1030s, possibly around 1032, Matilda was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, and his wife Adela of France, a daughter of Robert the Pious, King of France. Matilda of Flanders was the consummate duchess and queen. ![]()
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