 "Domina", is the feminine equivalent of the title "dominus", the meaning of which ranged from head of a household to an imperial title and translated as "master" or "lord".Whereas the carried the implication of a king's wife only, the was used of a woman exercising temporal powers in her own right, as had Æthelflæd of Mercia.Notably, Matilda's husband Geoffrey never adopted the equivalent "dominus Anglorum".