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Marching Matilda – the Empress who should have been queen

Anna Belfrage / March 13, 2025 / 21 Comments / Historical People, Medieval times, Women in history, Writing / blog tour, Cathie Dunn, Civil War, Dark Deceit12th C England, Empress Matilda, historical fiction, Marching through history, The Anarchy

Last week, Cathie visited with a post about Poppa, forgotten matriarch to the dukes of Normandy. Today, she is back with a post about yet another matriarch, but despite never having been recognised as queen of England, Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is anything but forgotten! From her spring the Plantagenet dynasty that would rule […]

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Adding a dash or two of ice to history

Anna Belfrage / August 19, 2022 / Leave a Comment / Historical People, History, Writing / 12th century England, 17th century, civil wat, Danish history, Empress Matilda, fleeing across the ice, Fredrick III, Ice, Karl X Gustav, King Stephen, Medieval history, Sweden as a superpower, Swedish history, The Second Northern War

I have spent the last few days thinking about ice. Partly, this is because it’s been very, very hot—so hot, I wouldn’t have minded a pile of crushed ice to roll around in. And then, of course, there are all the news reports about the disappearing ice—in the Artic, in the Himalayas, in Antarctica. Everywhere,

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