I should warn you that, as a name, Matilda was very much the Aelfgifu of the twelfth century. Henry’s mother, first wife and daughter were all called Matilda. Henry’s daughter Matilda is going to spend much of her life fighting to be queen of England but I’m not risking any spoilers when I say that one person or another called Matilda was queen of England most of the time from 1066 until the middle of the following century.
