Matilda of Tuscany (Italian: Matilde di Toscana; Latin: Matilda or Mathilda; c. 1046 – 24 July 1115), or Matilda of Canossa (Italian: Matilde di Canossa [maˈtilde di kaˈnɔssa]), also referred to as la Gran Contessa ("the Great Countess"), was a member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) in the second half of the eleventh ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Matilda of Canossa (born 1046, Lucca, Tuscany—died July 24, 1115, Bondeno, Romagna) was the countess of Tuscany remembered for her role in the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman emperor.

Mar 23, 2021 · Matilda of Canossa (c. 1046-1115), the Countess of Tuscany (r. 1055-1115) and Vice-Queen of Italy (r. 1111-1115), was the final head of the noble House of Canossa following the deaths of her father in 1052 and her elder brother in 1055.

Mar 25, 2017 · Also known as: The Great Countess or La Gran Contessa; Matilda of Canossa; Matilda, Countess of Tuscany Background, Family: Mother: Beatrice of Bar, second wife of Boniface.

Matilda was of noble birth and was to inherit a large and wealthy domain. Her father, Boniface II, held sizeable estates in northern Italy, with the seat of his power located at Canossa, a virtually impregnable fortress in the Apennine mountains.

Jan 16, 2021 · In the mountains of Reggio Emilia there is an area known as "Terre di Canossa": this is the territory where the castles in which the life of Matilda of Canossa, one of the most extraordinary and influential women in all of history, unfolded. We retrace her story through art and monuments.

Matilda of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany, daughter and heiress of the Marquess Boniface of Tuscany, and Beatrice, daughter of Frederick of Lorraine, b. 1046; d. July 24, 1114. In 1053 her father was murdered. Duke Gottfried of Lorraine, an opponent of the Emperor Henry III, went to Italy and married the widowed Beatrice.

When Matilda grew to womanhood she was married to her stepbrother Gottfried of Lower Lorraine, from whom, however, she separated in 1071. He was murdered in 1076; the marriage was childless, but it cannot be proved that it was never …

May 29, 2018 · Matilda of Tuscany (1046-1115) was a strong supporter of the papacy during the Investiture Controversy, who mediated at the famous meeting between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV at her ancestral castle of Canossa in 1077.

The letters to Matilda (Beatrice d. 1076) give distinct expression to the pope's high esteem and sympathy for the princess. He called her and her mother "his sisters and daughters of St. Peter" (Regest., II, ix), and wished to undertake a Crusade with them to free the Christians in the Holy Land (Reg., I, xi).