Matilda de Flandre ²

  General Notes:

Queen consort of William I the Conqueror, whom she married c. 1053. During William's absences in England, the duchy of Normandy was under her regency, with the aid of their son, Robert Curthose, except when he was in rebellion against his father. The embroidery of the Bayeux tapestry was once wrongly attributed to her.

William, the only (and bastard) son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, succeeded to the dukedom in 1035 and sometime later, perhaps in 1051, received from his English kinsman, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. Two years later he strengthened the claims that he had thus established by marrying Matilda of Flanders, who traced her descent in the female line from King Alfred the Great.

[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]

Matilda married William I 'the Conqueror' King of England, son of Robert I 'the Magnificent' 6th Duc de Normandie and Herleva de Falaise, in 1053 in Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Eu, Normandie, France.¹ (William I 'the Conqueror' King of England was born between 1027 and 1028 in Falise Castle, Falise, Normandie, France,¹ died on 9 Sep 1087 in Priory of St. Gervais, Rouen, Caux, France ⁴ and was buried in St Stephen Abbey, Caen, Normandy, France ⁴.)