Episode 5.5 - Matilda of Tuscany

Matilda was the Margrave of Tuscany and for a time was the most powerful leader in northern Italy. She acted as an almost independent leader rather than a subject of the Holy Roman Empire, fighting with it over policy and supporting papal authority over imperial in an effort to reform and revitalize the church.

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Holy Roman Empire

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Map of Italy, 1050

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Matilda

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Boniface of Tuscany

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Beatrice

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Matilda's Tomb

Sources:

• Nora Duff, Matilda of Tuscany

• Giovanni Tabacco, New Cambridge Medieval History, Northern and Central Italy in the Eleventh Century

• Francis M Gillis, “Matilda, Countess of Tuscany”, The Catholic Historical Review

Names Mentioned:

• Beatrice

• Boniface

• Conrad II

• Godfrey the Bearded

• Henry III

• Henry IV

• Henry V

• Hildebrand / Pope Gregory VII

• Welf II