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Matilda of Boulogne

1103 - 1152

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Matilda I of Boulogne (c. 1105 – 3 May 1152) was Countess of Boulogne in her own right from 1125 and Queen of England from the accession of her husband, King Stephen, in 1135 until her death in 1152. She supported Stephen in his struggle for the English throne against their mutual cousin Empress Matilda. She played an unusually active role for a woman of the period when her husband was captured, and proved herself an effective general who managed to force the Empress to release Stephen. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matilda of Boulogne is the 1,161st most popular politician (up from 8,086th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from France (up from 2,388th in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Matilda of Boulogne ranks 1,161 out of 19,576. Before her are Bernie Sanders, Petro Poroshenko, Yeongjo of Joseon, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Abul Kalam Azad, and Ptolemy VI Philometor. After her are Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Cassander, Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat, Nikolai Yezhov, and Eduard Bernstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1103, Matilda of Boulogne ranks 1. After her are Ahmad Yasawi, Harald Gille, William Adelin, Emperor Toba, Aénor de Châtellerault, Alfonso Jordan, André de Montbard, Adeliza of Louvain, Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon, and Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia. Among people deceased in 1152, Matilda of Boulogne ranks 2. Before her is Conrad III of Germany. After her are Theobald II, Count of Champagne, Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, Ralph I, Count of Vermandois, Isaac Komnenos, Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen, and Henry of Scotland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Matilda of Boulogne ranks 380 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean Renoir (1894), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Colette (1873), and André Malraux (1901). After her are Robert Guiscard (1016), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), and Dagobert I (611).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Matilda of Boulogne ranks 98. Before her are Anne of Brittany (1477), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748). After her are Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), and James I of Aragon (1208).

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