#empress maud

[liviasdrusillas]

“if he thinks he is fighting a spoiled princess, he's wrong. i am now a mother defending her son.”

alison pill as empress matilda in part one of pillars of the earth

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

Talking about a genderbent version of Daemyra is actually ironic because that’s literally their real life counterparts, Empress Matilda and her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. Geoffrey was 15 when he married a 25-year-old Matilda. Now I want to read a Daemyra fanfic with Daemon being significantly younger than Rhaenyra, that could be very interesting.

I hear Matilda and Geoffrey didn't get along. Personally I ship her with Robert (once you start you never stop I guess)

I want a Daemyra fanfic where Rhaenyra is the aunt and Daemon the nephew (which would make the Dance impossible to happen). It would be interesting.

[tercessketchfield]

MEN THINK ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE. WOMEN THINK ABOUT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

JUDITH OF BAVARIA (797-843) — Daughter of Count Welf I of Bavaria, Judith was a Carolingian Empress as the second wife of Louis I the Pious. Mother of Gisela and Charles the Bald, she foght for both her own influence at court and for the succession of her son over the claims of his elder half-brothers, the sons of Louis I from his first marriage. Charles became the Emperor in 875, after the death of Louis II, his nephew and a son of his half-brother Lothair / fancast: Annabel Scholey

MARIA OF AUSTRIA (1528-1603) — Daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal. She served as Regent of Spain both jointly with her husband, Maximilian (before their accession to the imperial throne), and in person, for her father, and brother, Philip II. Her children include two Holy Roman Emperors, Rudolf II and Matthias, over whom she held great influence, and queens consorts of Spain, and France / fancast: Olivia Cooke

EMPRESS MAUD (1102-1167) — Daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland. Her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, gave her the title under which she came down into history, and was a source of great pride to Maud. Rightful heiress of Henry I, she confronted her cousin, King Stephen, in the civil war, known as the Anarchy, fighting ferociously for her rights. She failed in this for herself but won for her son Henry, who became king and established the Plantagenet dynasty in England / cast: Alison Pill in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) — She succeded her father Charles VI as the ruler of Habsburg monarchy in 1740, and devoutedly defended it against its enemies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. Wife of the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, she was a forceful personality and a competent ruler herself, reigning first in her own right, and later, jointly with her son Empreror Joseph II. Her children include two Holy Romam Emperors (Joseph II and Leopold II), queens consorts of Naples ans Sicily, and France / cast: Marie-Luise Stockinger in Maria Theresia (2017)

[perioddramasource]

ALISON PILL as EMPRESS MAUD 

The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

[magnificent-sultana]

Royal women: Princesses or Infantas that became Queens or Empresses

Matilda of England, Queen of England*, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire

Catherine of Aragon, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Queen of England

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, Queen of France

Margaret Tudor, Princess of England, Queen of Scotland

Isabel I of Castile, Queen of Castile, Queen of Aragon

Isabel of Portugal, Infanta of Portugal, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire

Catherine of Valois, Princess of France, Queen of England

Joan of Portugal, Infanta of Portugal, Queen of Castile

Mary I of England, Queen of England, Queen of Spain

Mary Tudor, Princess of England, Queen of France

[annebrontesrequiem]

Also since we’re on the topic Empress Maud is the rightful queen of England if only for escaping a siege in the dead of winter at night walking right past Stephen’s forces

[princeaemontargaryen]

Historical parallels between "A Dance With Dragons" characters and the English monarchy:

1. Rhaenyra Targaryen- Empress Matilda.

2. Daemon Targaryen - Geoffrey of Anjou.

3. Alicent Hightower - Matilda of Boulogne.

4. Aegon II Tarharyen - King Stephen.

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

Still salty that Empress Matilda (Maud) didn't get the throne.

Supporters of Stephen, king of nerds, dni