Book contents
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- 1 Mother and Motherhood in the Vita et Passio Willelmi Norwicensis
- 2 Prayer for the Dead:
- 3 Authority over Men and the Allocation of Riches:
- 4 Flemish Settlement and Maritime Traffic in the South-West Peninsula of Britain, c. 1050–1250
- 5 Cistercians and the Laity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Upper Normandy
- 6 Memory and Trauma:
- 7 New Charters of the Empress Matilda, with Particular Reference to Her Reception at Gloucester in 1139
- 8 Female Identity before 1250:
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- Index
7 - New Charters of the Empress Matilda, with Particular Reference to Her Reception at Gloucester in 1139
from Part I - Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
Book contents
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
- 1 Mother and Motherhood in the Vita et Passio Willelmi Norwicensis
- 2 Prayer for the Dead:
- 3 Authority over Men and the Allocation of Riches:
- 4 Flemish Settlement and Maritime Traffic in the South-West Peninsula of Britain, c. 1050–1250
- 5 Cistercians and the Laity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Upper Normandy
- 6 Memory and Trauma:
- 7 New Charters of the Empress Matilda, with Particular Reference to Her Reception at Gloucester in 1139
- 8 Female Identity before 1250:
- Part II Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
- Index
Summary
Twenty-one new charter texts, or references to such texts now lost, add significantly to the corpus of materials that Marjorie Chibnall gathered for the biography of the Empress Matilda. In particular, this new evidence throws light upon the circumstances in which Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet brokered their alliance with Robert of Gloucester, for the first time properly identifying the role played here by Miles of Gloucester, subsequently promoted as earl of Hereford.
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- Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages , pp. 107 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021