"By quoting contemporary letters and histories, Arman brings this woman and her world vividly to life. More than that, she shows how Matilda fits into medieval England and what gifts she left the kingdom she ruled so wisely and so well." -- New York Journal of Books
The wife of King Henry I and the mother of the Empress Maud is a woman and a Queen forgotten to history. She is frequently conflated with her daughter or her mother-in-law...