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3 articles matching “Louis VII”
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She had once ruled part of it, for a few months, under a title that was not quite queen. Matilda was fifty-two when her son inherited the kingdom she had been promised herself.
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She was about thirty when she became a king's widow and a king's mother in the same night. Her son was nine. The men who would govern for him did not put his mother in charge.
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She was eight years old when they sent her across the Channel with no dowry. For the next twenty six years she would have no husband and no freedom either.