The wedding of Princess Matilda

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in 1114, Princess Matilda was married.

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Granddaughter of William the Conqueror, daughter of Henry I and the future mother of Henry II, Matilda was born in England in 1102. On her mother’s side she was the grandchild of Malcolm III of Scots and St Margaret of Scotland, who was descended from the Anglo-Saxon kings of England. She proved to…