Brunswick Cathedral
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Brunswick Cathedral is a large Lutheran church in the City of Braunschweig, Germany.
Braunschweig Dom
South side
Westwork
Central aisle
Matilda of England was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Brunswick Cathedral
…around the 1170s. The construction of the church was disrupted several times during the various exiles of Henry the Lion, so that he and his consort Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, were both buried in an unfinished church. The limestone statues of them on their tomb in the nave are an idealised representation made a generation…
Matilda depicted at her wedding in the Gospels of Henry the Lion
Coronation of Henry the Lion and Matilda, from the Gospels of Henry the Lion (c. 1188)
Head of a funerary statue of Matilda in Brunswick Cathedral