Matilda is permitted to retire from Arundel Product:Postcard Half-length portrait

Half-length portrait

pointing towards the stout railway director

summo artificio efficta

Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth

Also showing a flock of sheep moving along the street with pedestrians on the pavement

Matilda is permitted to retire from Arundel Product:Postcard Half-length portraitMatilda is permitted to retire from Arundel, Sussex, 1139 (1864). Matilda (1102 1167), the daughter of Henry I of England, is permitted by Stephen of Blois (1096 1154) to leave Arundel castle and escorted, under the safeguard of the legate, to the outposts of the Earl of Gloucester. Stephen usurped the throne when Henry died in 1135, provoking a civil war as he and Matilda fought over the crown.