Her maternal grandmother, Saint Margaret of Scotland, is Scotland's only royal saint. Her strongest supporter was her bastard half-brother Robert of Gloucester, and her marriage to Henry V ended childless with his death when she was twenty-three. Her youngest son William was her favourite, and he ran to mommy in Rouen after Thomas a Beckett refused to let him marry the woman he wanted. Her second son Geoffrey, named for his father, got into fights with her eldest son until Geoffrey's death in 1158. For 10 points, name this wife of Geoffrey of Anjou and mother of Henry II, a so-called Empress who struggled for the throne of England with Stephe
Her maternal grandmother, Saint Margaret of Scotland, is Scotland's only royal saint. Her strongest supporter was her bastard half-brother Robert of Gloucester, and her marriage to Henry V ended childless with his death when she was twenty-three. Her youngest son William was her favourite, and he ran to mommy in Rouen after Thomas a Beckett refused to let him marry the woman he wanted. Her second son Geoffrey, named for his father, got into fights with her eldest son until Geoffrey's death in 1158. For 10 points, name this wife of Geoffrey of Anjou and mother of Henry II, a so-called Empress who struggled for the throne of England with Stephen of Blois.
Her maternal grandmother, Saint Margaret of Scotland, is Scotland's only royal saint.
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