. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. 137 detractors, who could not endure to witness the wedded hap- piness of their sovereign, and the virtuous influence of his youthful queen. The invasion of duke Robert, Henry's eldest brother, on his retiu-n from the Holy Land, took place in the second year of Matilda's ma
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. 137 detractors, who could not endure to witness the wedded hap- piness of their sovereign, and the virtuous influence of his youthful queen. The invasion of duke Robert, Henry's eldest brother, on his retiu-n from the Holy Land, took place in the second year of Matilda's marriage. King Henry's fleet being manned '.vith Norman seamen, and, of course, under the influence of Norman chiefs, revolted; and instead of guarding the coasts of England from the threatened invasion of the duke, swept across the narrow seas, and brought him and his armament in triumph to Portsmouth, where he was joined by the majority of the Anglo-Norman baronage.' Robert had also his par- tisans among the English; for Edgar Atheling so far forgot the interests of his royal niece, queen Matilda, as to espouse the cause of his friend Robert against the king her husband. Robert landed at Portsmouth, and marched direct to Win- chester, where queen Matilda then lay-iri with her first-bom child, William the Atheling. When this circumstance was related to the duke, he relinquished his purpose of storming the city, with the observation, " that it never should be said he commenced the war by an assault on a woman in childbed, for that would be a base action.'" Matilda duly appre- ciated this generous consideration on the part of her royal brother-in-law and godfather, and exerted all her influence to negotiate a peace between him and her lord, in which she was assisted by the good offices of the archbishop Anselm; and this formidable crisis passed over without the effusion of a diop of blood.* These are Hardyng's words on the subject:â fl thn " But Anselm archbiMhoj)
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