MATILDA, Countess of Tuscany

1046–1115, countess of Tuscany, called the Great Countess; supporter of Pope Gregory VII in the papal conflict with the Holy Roman emperors. Ruling over Tuscany and parts of Emilia-Romagna and Umbria, she controlled the most powerful feudal state in central Italy. It was at her castle at Canossa that Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV humiliated himself before Pope Gregory VII in 1077. Soon afterward Matilda made a donation (renewed in 1102) of her lands to the Holy See; she retained them as fiefs from the papacy. Her first husband having died in 1076, she married (1089) Duke Welf V of Bavaria. After the expedition (1110–11) of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to Italy, Matilda willed her lands to him on her death. He seized them in 1116. The dispute over the ownership of Matilda's lands played a large part in the conflicts between the popes and the emperors, particularly the Hohenstaufen. The cities of Tuscany emerged as independent communes from the struggle; the other lands left by Matilda eventually fell under papal rule.

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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington - Vol. 2
Book by Richard Robert Madden; Harper, 1855
Subjects: Blessington, Marguerite--Countess Of--1789-1849
...LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. BY R. R. MADDEN...LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. CHAPTER I...two months, I am informed by the Countess of Guiccioli now Marquise de Boissy...
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Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany: The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca
Book by Chris Wickham; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Lucca (Italy : Province)--Rural Conditions, Rural Population--Italy--Lucca (Province)--History, Villages--Italy--Lucca (Province)--History
...meta del s. XII" had in fact been for centuries the principal city of the March of Tuscany, and retained this association up to the death of the Countess Matilda of Canossa, the last powerful marquis, in 1115, although it was by then weakening...
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Florence & Some Tuscan Cities
Book by Colonel R. C. Goff, Clarissa Goff, Charles Robert Goff; A. & C. Black, 1905
Subjects: Florence (Italy)--Description And Travel, Tuscany (Italy)--Description And Travel
...unfortunate patroness, the Countess of Albany; and it is in...the house doors in Tuscany. With his own hands...to the Grand-duke of Tuscany , the best of creatures. I have a...one of which lived the Countess of Albany and the...
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Medieval Mediterranean Ports: The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 To 1235
Book by Silvia Orvietani Busch; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Harbors--Italy--Tuscany--History, Harbors--Spain--Catalonia--History, Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History
...is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data...this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 90 04 12069 6 Copyright...and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated...
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Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm
Book by Susan M. Johns; Manchester University Press, 2003
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social Class)--Great Britain--History--To 1500, Great Britain--History--Norman Period, 1066-1154, Nobility--Great Britain--History--To 1500, Normans--Great Britain, Power (Social Sciences)--Great Britain--History--To 1500, Women In Politics--Great Britain--History--To 1500, Women--Great Britain--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500
...33 Powerful women were worth cultivating: Matilda countess of Tuscany provided him with an escort whilst he was...possibly of Flemish origin. Her daughter-in-law, Countess Matilda of Tuscany, received a copy of Judiths book as a wedding...
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Christian Pessimism on the Walls of the Vatican Galleria Delle Carte Geografiche
Journal article by Walter Goffart; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Geography, Historical--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Maps, Early--Analysis, Vatican City--Galleries and museums
...Theodosius" (no. 576) with "The Donation of Countess Matilda" (no. 622), and at the north end, of "Saint Francesco di Paola emerging unharmed...is an inset on the lower edge of the map of Tuscany showing San Miniato, a town in the lower Arno...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2002-2003
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter, William Todd Schultz; Biography, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: American Psychoanalytic Association--Bibliography, Anzaldua, Gloria--Bibliography, Ashe, Arthur--Bibliography, Black, Conrad--Bibliography, Books--Bibliography, Chicago, Judy--Bibliography, Clutha, Janet Paterson Frame--Bibliography, Douglass, Frederick--Bibliography, Doyle, Arthur Conan--Bibliography, Harvard University--Bibliography, Hurston, Zora Neale--Bibliography, Johnson, James Weldon--Bibliography, Jung, Carl Gustav--Bibliography, Kempe, Margery--Bibliography, Love, Nat--Bibliography, Madison, James--Bibliography, Modern Language Association of America--Bibliography, Stein, Gertrude--Bibliography, Women's Social and Political Union--Bibliography, Woolf, Virginia--Bibliography
...to History." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9.2 (June 2003): 241-60. Using narratives of massacres by German troops in Tuscany during World War II, explores mechanisms of the construction of group memory, arguing that visual imagery...


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Gregory VII and the Politics of the Spirit
Magazine article by Robert Louis Wilken; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 1999
Subjects: Catholic Church--Government, Gregory VII, Pope--Philosophy, Millennium--Religious aspects, Religion and politics--History
...when the Pope reached northern Italy the promised escort had not arrived, and he took refuge in the castle of his friend Countess Matilda at Canossa. Here the famous confrontation between pope and king took place. The King, abandoned by his nobles...


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Matilda , Countess of Tuscany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MATILDA , countess of Tuscany 1046 1115...the Great Countess; supporter of Pope Gregory...Ruling over Tuscany and parts...afterward Matilda made a donation...The cities of Tuscany emerged as...lands left by Matilda eventually...
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Canossa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...much of Tuscany and Emilia. Matilda , countess of Tuscany, was the last of the family. In...Pope Gregory VII the withdrawal of the excommunication against him. The pope was Matildas guest at the castle, and Henry...
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Lucius III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...there was the perennial question of the lands of Matilda , countess of Tuscany. The pope and the emperor had a long conference at...a joint decree ( Ad abolendam ) on the extirpation of heresies. The decree had a new stringency and detail...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...conflict between the emperors and the popes over investiture and by the contested succession to Tuscany after the death (1115) of Countess Matilda . Because the many petty lords were independent of imperial authority and because the cities gradually...
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Papal States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...I was forged. On its basis later popes also claimed suzerainty over Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia. In 1115, Countess Matilda of Tuscany, by leaving her territories to the church, helped to precipitate a long struggle between popes and emperors...
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