Talk:Matilda of Flanders

message: Surely she did not marry in 1152, nearly 70 years after her death.
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Where was she buried? The infobox and the article give different churches. m.e. 04:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlikely George I and the rest of the Hanover kings were decendents.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 02:06, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: They were descendants. The current queen's claim depends on descent going back to George I, who was descended from James I, who was descended from Henry VII, who was descended from William and Matilda. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Exactly when was she regent? The periods of her regency is highly relevant and should be listed. --Aciram (talk) 19:01, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regent 

message: Bookbard, I've reverted on the basis that the section isn't supported by secondary sources. What I mean by that is that while The Conqueror's Wife, for example, may feature Matilda, there's no supporting citation to show that other writers consider it relevant to understanding or interpreting her life. What I'd usually be expecting to see is something such as, for example, a biographer noting that "our modern interpretation of Matilda is shaped by The Conqueror's Wife..." or an academic article explaining how the book and Matilda are intertwined, etc. An example I sometimes use is the battle of Agincourt. It appears in lots of books, but the article only examines those examples in which there is substantial secondary discussion of it (e.g. how it plays out in Shakespeare's Henry V, a topic covered by many writers). Give me a shout if you need advice on where to look for this sort of material. Hchc2009 (talk) 18:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical fiction... 

message: I have to agree with a statement above that got slammed and I want to redirect it to this one point. The article's Notes say "Matilda’s principal attribute was her descent from Charlemagne" which is obviously false. Perhaps her other ancestors were her principal attribute, but not Charlemagne. If William was also a descendant, which he is factually known to be, then that attribute is completely moot. Now do not misunderstand me, I do not disagree that she was of a higher station than William, but I think the validation is incorrect and needs fixing. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 06:49, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  William is also a descendant of Charlemagne 

message: There is a claim in the Marriage section that the pope objected to her marriage due to consanguinity. There is a citation, granted, but there is no further information. That really needs to be addressed. Why? Via what part of the family? If it's going to be mentioned, it needs to be fully explained. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 07:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consanguinity needs expansion 

message: Marriage to a Norman does not make you Norman. It DOES make you whatever consort of whatever title that spouse might have, but it does NOT make you Norman. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:07, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: She was not Norman...

message: I added the fact that Matilda acted as regent in Normandy in 1066-1067, in 1067-1068, in (probably, but not as confirmed) 1069, in 1069-1072, in 1074, and in 1075-1076. The reference is: Tracy Joanne Borman: Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I, Bantam Books, 2012. This is of course valid information which should be in the article. It was however erased from the article because I forgot the page numbers. I may be mistaken, but although page numbers are the ideal, references without page numbers are, after all, still references, and to erase them can be seen as a bit to rigid and strict. I, for one, do not have the energy to go back to the library and look up the page numbers after adding information which does have a reference, just not page numbers. Its a shame if this information will continue to be unknown in wikipedia because of that. I will mention it here, if someone else have more energy - or ar simply interested to know the years and to the back of the article to ask for them, as I was about to once. Well, here they are. --Aciram (talk) 14:23, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matilda's years of regency in Normandy