Laurie VossFeb 1, 2023
Well! It has been a while since I did a historical bio thread. Project #EuropeanBios is over and so is Twitter. The successor is a new medium, Mastodon, and a new project, #OneThousandYearsOfWomen, historically important women from approximately 1000CE to present. Here is Empress Matilda, born 1102, who spent decades trying to become queen of England and failed, and had to accept as consolation seeing her son become king and being direct ancestor to all British royalty right up to today.
Show threadLaurie VossFeb 1, 2023
The #EuropeanBios threads have been rescued from the sinking ship of Twitter and are currently being cleaned up and edited into at least a website, possibly a book. #OneThousandYearsOfWomen doesn't have a primary list or a website or anything yet, so this is the first one but may not end up being first chronologically. Forgive me, this isn't my full time job or anything.
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Matilda's dad was King Henry 1 of England, himself the son of William the Conqueror, the French/Viking dude who conquered England in 1066. Henry had become king by being physically nearby when his brother William Rufus, king at the time, died in a hunting accident. Henry basically grabbed the crown, jammed it on his head and shouted "no backsies" which was at the time considered a reasonable method of becoming king assuming you had a lot of armed men to back you up.
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@seldo And that was before there were any pulp novels with the words “and make it look like an accident.”
Mar 8, 2023 at 7:03amWeb