20. Map
21. Norton: England’s Queens
22. Other religious houses that received her bounty included the priory of Saint-Marie at Bondeville and the abbeys of Lannoy and Saint-André-en-Gouffern.
23. Marshall
24. Chronicon Valassense; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
25. Chronicon Valassense; The Plantagenet Chronicles; Avril; Chadwick: Empress Matilda’s Bling; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda; Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin”
26. Knowles and Hadcock
27. Crouch: The Normans
28. Leyser: Medieval Germany and Its Neighbours
3. “A Woman of the Stock of Tyrants”
1. Stephen of Rouen
2. Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
3. Chroniques des comtes d’Anjou et des seigneurs d’Amboise
4. Robert of Torigni
5. Calendar of Documents preserved in France
6. Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Her Sons”
7. Jones: The Plantagenets
8. Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Her Sons”
9. Giraldus Cambrensis
10. Langlois; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
11. Kelly; Boyd
12. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
13. Stephen of Rouen
14. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066–1154
15. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
16. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
17. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, cited Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
18. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies; Materials for the History of Thomas Becket; Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Her Sons”
19. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
20. Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
21. Letter 26 in Appendix II
22. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies
23. John of Salisbury: The Letters of John of Salisbury
24. Eyton
4. “A Star Fell”
1. Eyton; Robert of Torigni
2. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
3. Haverkamp
4. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066–1154
5. Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
6. Epistolae: Medieval Women’s Latin Letters
7. Stephen of Rouen
8. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
9. Ibid.
10. Recueil des Actes de Henry II; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
11. Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France
12. Stephen of Rouen
13. Chronique du Bec. Some say incorrectly that she was buried first in Notre-Dame de Pré, near Rouen, the convent of Bonnes Nouvelles, and later moved to Bec-Hellouin.
14. Pignot; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
15. Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin”
16. Stephen of Rouen
17. Porée. The original epitaph was badly damaged when the tomb was destroyed in 1421, but these words were incorporated into the inscription placed on the new tomb by Jean Mabillon in 1684.
18. Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin”; Porée; Chadwick: Empress Matilda’s Bling. This cloak was not the dalmatic of gold silk and linen preserved in the church of Ambazac in France, which a late tradition associates with Geoffrey of Anjou, and modern popular opinion with Maud herself. In 1960, it was established that the dalmatic dates from no earlier than the thirteenth century, and that it bears the heraldic emblems of the counts of Vienne (http://www.hubert-herald.nl/FraVienne.htm).
19. Chadwick: Empress Matilda’s Bling; Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France; Castor
20. Chibnall: “The Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin”
21. Porée; Chibnall: The Empress Matilda
22. Truax
23. Amundsen and Diers
24. See, for example: http://www.34-menopause-symptoms.com/mood-swings/articles/violent-mood-swings.htm; https://www.myvmc.com/symptoms/mood-swings-in-menopause; http://www.healthguidance .org/entry/2462/1/Menopause-andAnger.html; http://www.webmd .com/menopause/guide/emotional-roller-coaster; http://www.menopausecentre.com.au/information-centre/symptoms; http://menopause-aid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/why-menopausal-woman-gets-angry.html; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16857659
25. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
26. Chronicon Valassense
27. William of Newburgh
28. Beem: “The Virtuous Virago”
Appendix II: Letters
1. Anselm of Aosta: The Letters of St Anselm of Canterbury; Anselm of Aosta: S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia; Southern: St Anselm and His Biographer
2. Archives départementales du Calvados, 2H25/2, Trinity
3. Epistolae Selectae, Das Register Gregors VII
5. Anselm of Aosta: S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia
6. Ibid.
7. Ivo of Chartres
8. Ibid.
9. Hildebert of Lavardin: “Letters”
10. Herbert de Losinga
11. Anselm of Aosta: S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia
12. Ibid.
13. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies
14. Anselm of Aosta: S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ivo of Chartres
24. Bernard of Clairvaux; William of Saint-Thierry, Arnold of Bonneval and Geoffrey of Auxerre. The abbey of La Capelle, near Les Attaques, had been founded by Matilda’s grandmother, the sainted Ida of Lorraine (Dark).
25. Bernard of Clairvaux
26. Patrologia Latina, Vol. 190
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