![]() ![]() Traveling to Florence in 1055 for a meeting with the pope, the emperor had Beatrice and her surviving daughter, Matilda, arrested-the two were taken back with him to Germany. (Beatrice's first husband, Boniface, had always been a supporter of the emperor). ![]() ![]() The marriage, however, had taken place without the permission of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (who was Conrad II's son), against whom Godfrey had already rebelled. After Boniface's assassination, Beatrice seems to have acted as regent on behalf of her son, Frederick, but the situation is both murky and fraught-the second of couple's daughters, possibly named Beatrice, after her mother, died on 17 December 1053, and under increasing pressure to preserve her husband's lands and titles (as well as her own), the widowed Beatrice married her cousin, Godfrey III of Upper Lorraine. On, Matilda's father was ambushed while out hunting and killed. ![]() (However appealing these accounts are, modern historians tend to discount Vedriani's claims for Matilda's military training and activity.) Now there appeared in Lombardy at the head of her numerous squadrons the young maid Matilda, armed like a warrior, and with such bravery, that she made known to the world that courage and valour in mankind is not indeed a matter of sex, but of heart and spirit. ![]()
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