What is Empress Matilda?
{{Infobox Royalty | name = Matilda | title = | image = Empress Matilda.png | caption = Depiction of Matilda in the 12th-century [[Gospels of Henry the Lion]] | image_size = 200px | succession = [[List of English monarchs|Lady of the English]] | moretext = ('''disputed''') | reign = 8 April 1141 — 1148<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XdnAAAAMAAJ |page=51 |title=Debrett's kings and queens of Britain |author=David Williamson |publisher=Webb & Bower |year=1986|isbn=9780863501012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQpHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 |page=70 |title=Chronology, Or, An Introduction and Index to Universal History, Biography, and Useful Knowledge |author=George Palmer Putnam |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |year=1833}}</ref> | predecessor = [[Stephen of England|Stephen I]] | successor = Stephen I | succession1 = {{plainlist| * [[List of Holy Roman empresses|Holy Roman Empress]] * [[List of German queens|Queen consort of the Romans]] }} | reign1 = 7 January 1114 – 23 May 1125 | reign-type1 = Tenure | spouses = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor]]|1114|1125|end=died}} * {{marriage|[[Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou]]|1128|1151|end=died}} }} | issue = {{plainlist| * [[Henry II of England|Henry II, King of England]] * [[Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou]] * [[William FitzEmpress]] }} | issue-type = [[Issue (genealogy)|Issue]] | house = [[House of Normandy|Normandy]] | father = [[Henry I of England]] | mother = [[Matilda of Scotland]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1102|2|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Winchester]], [[Hampshire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1167|9|10|1102|2|7|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Rouen]], [[Kingdom of France|France]] | burial_date = 26 October 1167 | burial_place = [[Rouen Cathedral]] | religion = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] | module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes