S3.19 Matilda of Scotland

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Matilda of Scotland (confusingly originally called Edith) was the daughter of the King of Scots and inheritor of the Anglo-Saxon royal line, which made her an alluring prospect of consort for the Norman king Henry I. Matilda was a highly confident and capable queen who proved very popular with her subjects as well as providing ample opportunity for Rex Facts. But will this be enough to get the Rex Factor? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor! This week, Matilda of Scotland.
0:19.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Cook. Hello!
0:25.0	Hello!
0:29.0	And welcome to Rex Factor, where we are reviewing all the Queen and Prince Consort of England from
0:34.6	Elswith to Prince Philip. Oh yes. If you like to get in touch with this you can find
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0:53.0	Please do because there is no other money coming into the livelihood household at the moment.
0:58.0	Biography!
1:00.0	So Matilda of Scotland was born in 1080 in Dumfermlin and she was the daughter of King
1:07.4	Malcolm the 3rd of Scotland and St Margaret of Wessex. Oh no I thought I think I thought she was St Margaret of
1:15.7	Wessex who's this again this is Matilda of Scotland okay yeah Margaret was the
1:21.4	same Margaret's her mother.
1:24.0	Now, no contemporary portraits of Matilda of Scotland
1:26.8	survive, but we do have a description from William of Marmsbury.
1:31.8	But perhaps slightly condescending, because he described her as being, by no means
1:37.2	despicable in beauty.
1:39.2	Right. Okay, so there's's he's saying there's lower depths to go to in his opinion.
1:47.0	Yes.
1:48.0	Wow.
1:49.0	And a contemporary poet Marbodius praised her for unlike her noble contemporaries
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