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| Description: | English King Henry II was the son of Matilda, by her second marriage. A simple enough sentence with a complicated history. The daughter of a King, direct heir to the throne, Empress of another empire, mother of a King; on January 7, 1114, Matilda first married Heinrich V, an Emperor of the German Empire, who died on May 23, 1125, at Utrecht, Netherlands (no issue by this marriage). So she was for a while the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. On April 3 or 22, 1127, she married Geoffery V Plantagenêt (Count of Anjou Duke of Normandy-born August 24, 1113, at Anjou, France; died September 7, 1151, at Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, France). So she became a dutchess and countess. Also known as Maud to distinguish her from her mother (see below), she was born "Adelaide", Princess of England in about 1104. Adelaide was denied the throne of England by her cousin Stephen after a brief civil war upon the death of her father. She passed away on September 10, 1167, at Abbaye Notre-Dame des Prés, near Rouen, France and was buried at Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec[-Hellouin], Eure, France.
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Empress Maud was the daughter of another Matilda (born about 1082 in Scotland; died May 1, 1118 at Winchester, Hampshire, England), whose baptized name was Edith, a Princess of Scotland. On November 11, 1100, the Princess Edith (Matilda) married English King Henry I, BEAUCLERC (born about 1068 at Selby, Yorkshire, England; died December 1, 1135, at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France). He was the youngest son of William I THE CONQUEROR, King of England, Duke of Normandy, one of the 12 peers of France.
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On June 3, 1162, Thomas à Becket was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. Nominated by his friend, English King Henry II, (Becket had previously served as his Chancellor), Becket underwent a radical change as an archbishop. He became pious and devoted to the church. This attitude Henry found "troublesome." When some knights heard Henry grumbling, they killed the Archbishop as he prayed on December 29, 1170. The Abbey of Our Lady of the Bec (crest of a hill of glacial material) has been closely associated with Canterbury since its founding. |
| Keywords: | Abbaye,Abbey,Bec,Normandy,France |
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