![]() ![]() She tried to turn back the wheel of history and made enemies everywhere. Matilda took possession of her father's crown in Winchester and claimed to de domina et regina - just as Stephen, her prisoner at that time, was dominus et rex. It seems that Gloucester did not approve of all of her actions. But in 1141 the Angevin party in England lost its cohesion, and after the battle of Lincoln the empress began to follow her own path. Both were willing to conclude a truce with King Stephen. In 40–1139 Matilda acted in close harmony with her brother, Earl Robert of Gloucester. She had not always been a devil, however. Why did the daughter of King Henry I have such a very bad press in England?Undoubtedly the empress irritated the. ![]() They accuse Matilda of having lost her war against King Stephen because of her pride, arrogance and even cruelty. But the English chroniclers mirror the distinctly negative traits in her character. Some twelfth-century continental historians regarded the Empress Matilda as an angel. ![]()
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