The Earl (A Hammer for Princes) (2014)
“The King married again, but as it became evident that this union would not produce another heir, Henry’s attention turned toward his remaining legitimate child, his daughter Matilda (or Maud), who because of her marriage to the German Emperor Henry V is called the Empress.
Her husband the emperor having died in 1125, Matilda (or Maud) made her way back to England. In 1127, her father forced his tenants-in-chief in both England and Normandy (which he had taken from his brother Robert Curthos...e--"Little Britches"--in 1106) to swear homage to Matilda as his heiress and successor.
The barons were not happy. They demanded the right to counsel and consent when the king married off his daughter a second time. No one doubted that he would; the nature of the Anglo-Norman kingship required a king, not a queen.
Henry was an unscrupulous, crabby, suspicious man. The husband he chose for the heiress of England and Normandy was the son of the Count of Anjou, traditionally Normandy’s enemy and rival.MoreLess
Her husband the emperor having died in 1125, Matilda (or Maud) made her way back to England. In 1127, her father forced his tenants-in-chief in both England and Normandy (which he had taken from his brother Robert Curthos...e--"Little Britches"--in 1106) to swear homage to Matilda as his heiress and successor.
The barons were not happy. They demanded the right to counsel and consent when the king married off his daughter a second time. No one doubted that he would; the nature of the Anglo-Norman kingship required a king, not a queen.
Henry was an unscrupulous, crabby, suspicious man. The husband he chose for the heiress of England and Normandy was the son of the Count of Anjou, traditionally Normandy’s enemy and rival.MoreLess
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