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1. Record Number: 11948
Author(s): Tanner, Heather J.
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Title : Queenship: Office, Custom, or Ad Hoc? The Case of Queen Matilda III of England (1135-1152)
Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.   Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 133 - 158.
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 3544
Author(s): Truax, Jean A.
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Title : Winning Over the Londoners: King Stephen, the Empress Matilda, and the Politics of Personality [the author argues that Stephen had the opportunity to build longlasting relationships with Londoners while Matilda was away with her husband on the continent; it is not the case that Matilda was particularly arrogant or quarrelsome as some chronicles portray her].
Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 43 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1996.
3. Record Number: 12750
Author(s): LoPrete, Kimberly A.
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Title : The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois [Adela occupied a high social status and power by virtue of her royal blood (she was the daughter of William the Conqueror), her role as the Countess of Blois, Chartres, and Meaux, and her position as the mother of Stephen, future King of England. She exerted authority as family head, accumulating land holdings and inheritance claims for the family by negotiating marriage alliances between her own family (the Thebaudians) and other powerful dynasties. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Albion , 22., 4 (Winter 1990):  Pages 567 - 589.
Year of Publication: 1990.