Empress Matilda
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Empress Matilda, also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy, she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with the emperor to Italy in 1116, was controversially crowned empress in St Peter's Basilica, and acted as the imperial regent in Italy. Matilda and Henry V had no children, and when he died in 1125, the imperial crown was claimed by his rival Lothair of Supplinburg.
12th-century depiction of Matilda and Henry's wedding feast
A 14th-century depiction of the White Ship sinking of 1120
Contemporary depiction of Geoffrey of Anjou, Matilda's second husband
A Matilda silver penny, minted in Oxford
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Henry V was King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, as the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. He was made co-ruler by his father, Henry IV, in 1098.
Emperor Henry V visits his father Henry IV in prison.
Atrium of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in the city of Milan, where resentments against Imperial rule repeatedly culminated in armed conflicts
Duke Welf II of Bavaria and Matilda of Tuscany were married from 1089 to 1095.