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Fountain Of Freedom, 2
~ ITEM: Part 1 — Freedom: Ad Fontes
~ ITEM: Matilda of Scotland (AD 1080-1118)
~ ITEM: The Charter Of Liberties of 1100; and The Magna Charta
~ THE SECOND PART of the story of Henry I’s freedom and law for the English world is remarkable and worth remembering.
The motive forces behind the spread and survival of the The Charter Of Liberties of 1100 were Henry’s wife & queen, “Good Queen Mold”, and the church in England.
(Edytha) Matilda of Scotland was of the old Anglo-Saxon royal line (through her mother), and Henry sought to legitimize his reign through marriage to her. Nonetheless, “She was much loved by her Anglo-Saxon subjects as she tried, in her quiet way, to alleviate their hardships.” She upheld the liberties of ordinary people not least through her constant support of the 1100 Charter, alongside St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury.
After her death, it appears that Henry had most of the 100 copies of the AD1100 Charter Of Liberties throughout England rounded up and destroyed– but the Church has a long memory, and deep archives.
A Swift Sunrise 