Empress Matilda

¦ ¦ ¦ Arit and welcome to the Samhain special of the Carlisle Times and Crimes podcast.

Back in the summer, I asked followers of the Facebook page for their unexplained experiences in Carlisle and they did not disappoint.

I received stories of shadows, unexplained noises and people who disappear into thin air.

We will hear a few of those stories tonight in this city seance, amongst other legends.

Elizabeth does not appear at the house on the 1841 entry ten years earlier.

Adult children, Robert, Joseph and Margaret, are all listed in 1841, and by 1861 they had inherited the farm and lived there for the second half of the 19th century.

Also living there from at least 1851 was their sister and widow Isabella Hislop with her daughter two-year-old Mary Ann.

In 1893 two people died at the house within a week.

He was the only legitimate son Henry had, and the entire future of the Norman dynasty in one body.

In June 1119, the boy had married Matilda, the daughter of Count Fulk of Anjou, which brought the wealthy French county of Maine into the family as dowry.

In 1120, William did homage to Louis for Normandy, which spared Henry the humiliation of kneeling to the French king himself.

Henry also had, by most counts, more than 20 illegitimate children, more than any English king before or since.

Two of them were on the white ship.

Richard of Lincoln was a grown man his father valued for his courage, and Matilda was the Countess of Perche.

The fleet gathered at Barfleur on the Cotentin Peninsula, and a charter Henry issued there is dated November 21st, so the court had been sitting in the port for days.

While they waited, a ship's captain named Thomas Fitz Stephen asked for an audience with the king and offered him a sum of gold for the right to serve the royal family.

It's established in the 11th century and it became what historian Nicholas Brooks has described as one of the most powerful royal castles in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Held for the Empress Matilda during the civil warriors of the It survived multiple sieges and was never taken.

Over the next two centuries, it became a luxurious castle used by royalty and other immediate family.

After being abandoned as a royal residence by Henry VIII, the castle fell into decline.

Henry I died at Rouen on the night of December 1st, 1135.

Of his lawful children, only his daughter Matilda survived him.

She had been wife to the emperor Henry V, and was now married to Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, the heir of the traditional rivals of the Norman house.

From this union sprang the great house of Anjou, which was to have so vast an influence on English history.

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but no sooner was he dead than the oath was forgotten the magnates norman and half english cared not for matilda who had only spent two years in england since she was eight years old and her husband was the hereditary foe of the barons who traced their descent from the great vassals of the conqueror thus it was that when henry died the barons in england and in normandy vowed that no one of the false race of the angevins should be their king they held themselves as mighty as any such southern lord and both in the island they had conquered and in their own land they rejected the dead king's daughter and her handsome spouse we will not have a foreigner to reign over us so they spoke of the count geoffrey There was another claimant to the throne, who, if he was no more Norman than Matilda, yet would not bring the Normans under an alien house.

the conqueror's daughter adela had married the count of blois a house at rivalry with anjou but not unfriendly to the normans their third son stephen had been brought up at the court of his uncle king henry he was a bold hardy man with the instincts it seemed of a baron rather than a king from him the barons in england could look for at least something of the independence which they still chafed at losing england it was said had never been ruled by a woman and now a strong man the great conqueror's own grandson stood for the throne no wonder the barons were unmindful of their oaths the church followed the lead of the claimant's brother henry who was bishop of the royal city of winchester but a stronger voice than either was found at the moment in the citizens of london they met stephen with acclamations and in their folk-mute which king henry had recognised as possessing wide powers over the great city they speaking in the name of the people of the land chose him to be lord and king elected by clergy and people as he himself phrased it king stephen was crowned on st stephen's day eleven thirty five for the time it seemed as if the new reign might be peaceful as the last even robert of gloucester the natural son of henry i submitted to the king and normandy followed the english example Stephen issued charters promising good government, the freedom of the church, the suppression of wrongs wrought by greedy officials, the surrender of the forests which the late king had made.

She was crowned on the 1st of October 1553, becoming England's first crowned Queen Regnant.

Although Empress Matilda had claimed the throne in 1141, and Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen Jane in July 1553, neither of them were crowned.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.