Matilda of Flanders: The Wife of William the Conqueror and the Woman Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Myth

The wife of William the Conqueror sent gold, in secret, to a man in arms against him. The man was her son. When the Conqueror discovered it, he raged that he had trusted her with his treasury and with justice throughout all his dominions. Matilda of Flanders did not deny it. She told him she would gladly die if it would bring her son back from the grave. He did nothing to her at all. This was a ma...