Matilda I (or Maud) (1105- 1152) was queen consort of England as the wife of King Stephen. In the civil war known as the Anarchy, she was forced to play an unusually active role for a woman of the period when her husband was captured, and proved herself an effective general who managed to force her cousin to release him.

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