Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

1167 saw the marriage of Eleanor's third daughter, Matilda, to Henry the Lion of Saxony ; Eleanor remained in England with her daughter for the year prior to Matilda's departure to Normandy in September.

Her original first name was Matilda ; Forry created " Wendayne " for her.

** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.

Bertha, wife of Joseph, ( caretakers of the castle ) tells Matilda of the " other wing ": " Now for goodness sake, dear madam, don't go no farther, for as sure as you are alive, here the ghosts live, for Joseph says he often sees lights and hears strange things.

Matilda and her own son stood for direct descent by heredity from Henry I, and she bided her time in France.

Sometime in this period, Matilda finally married her stepbrother Godfrey the Hunchback, for whom she had great disdain.

As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her grandmother Matilda was abbess and where her reputation for beauty and virtue ( probably also her Westphalian dowry ) is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto I of Saxony, who betrothed her to his recently divorced son and heir, Henry the Fowler.

Saint Matilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving ; her first biographer depicted her ( in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus ) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray.

The gift was accompanied by a letter, wherein Matilda named him a distinguished King and a father of the model for the spread of Christianity.

Before May was out he was once more in Rome in answer to a summons for the countess Matilda of Tuscany, whose troops held the Leonine City and Trastevere, but when at the end of June the antipope once more gained possession of St. Peter's, Victor again withdrew at once to his Monte Cassino abbey.

At the investiture of Lothair as Emperor he gained the territories belonging to Matilda of Tuscany in return for an annuity to be paid to the pope, in consequence of which the curial party based the contention that the Emperor was a vassal of the Papal see.

She and Matilda Joslyn Gage both made their first public speeches for women's rights at the convention.

Stephen's mother, Adela of England, was the daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, famous amongst her contemporaries for her piety, wealth and political talent.

Finally, the king arranged for Stephen to marry Matilda in 1125, the daughter and only heiress of the Count of Boulogne, who owned both the important continental port of Boulogne and vast estates in the north-west and south-east of England.

Henry attempted to build up a base of political support for Matilda in both England and Normandy, demanding that his court take oaths first in 1127, and then again in 1128 and 1131, to recognise Matilda as his immediate successor and recognise her descendants as the rightful ruler after her.

In 1138, Robert renounced his fealty to Stephen and declared his support for Matilda, triggering a major regional rebellion in Kent and across the south-west of England, although Robert himself remained in Normandy.

Stephen's wife Matilda was sent to negotiate another agreement between Stephen and David, called the treaty of Durham ; Northumbria and Cumbria would effectively be granted to David and his son Prince Henry, in exchange for their fealty and future peace along the border.

Another theory is that Stephen released Matilda out of a sense of chivalry ; Stephen was certainly known for having a generous, courteous personality and women were not normally expected to be targeted in Anglo-Norman warfare.

Robert took Stephen back to Gloucester, where the king met with the Empress Matilda, and was then moved to Bristol Castle, traditionally used for holding high-status prisoners.

Oxford Castle, however, was a powerful fortress and, rather than storming it, Stephen had to settle down for a long siege, albeit secure in the knowledge that Matilda was now surrounded.

The song Waltzing Matilda, which is about a swagman and squatters, is probably Australia's best internationally known and most well-loved song.

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".

Empress Matilda ( 1102 – 1167 ) is the only British monarch commonly referred to as " emperor " or " empress ", but acquired her title through her marriage to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and had little legitimacy as Queen of England.

This was also known as the Waltz and is the origin of the Australian song Waltzing Matilda.

In the Castle of Wolfenbach the castle that Matilda seeks refugee at while on the run is believed to haunted.

Matilda discovers it is not ghosts but the Countess of Wolfenbach who lives on the upper floors and who has been forced into hiding by her husband, the Count.

Shortly after Matilda meets the Countess the Castle of Wolfenbach itself is destroyed in a fire, mirroring the destruction of the Count's attempts to keep his wife a secret and how his plots throughout the story eventually lead to his own destruction.

Matilda finds asylum in the Castle of Wolfenbach: a castle inhabited by old married caretakers who claim that the second floor is haunted.

However, as Matilda ventures through the castle, she finds that the wing is not haunted by ghosts and rattling chains, but rather, the Countess of Wolfenbach.

There is some evidence suggesting Henry was unsure of his own hopes and the oath to make Matilda his heir.

Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

She is sometimes called la Gran Contessa (" the Great Countess ") or Matilda of Canossa after her ancestral castle of Canossa.

The story of Matilda and Henry IV is the main plot device in Luigi Pirandello's play Enrico IV.

Historical evidence of these efforts is in the Prayer Book sent to Mieszko II by the Duchess Matilda of Swabia around 1027.

In the 19th century, a squatter was a person who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock-the phenomenon is referred to in the song Waltzing Matilda.

In the middle of their way to the treasure, Scrooge, Matilda and Scrooge's nephews find a letter from Fergus, who believed Scrooge would eventually find it, revealing the reason he hid the secret from Scrooge is that Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of inheriting one.

Gideon is now considered the last of Fergus ' five children and a younger half-brother of Rumpus McFowl, Scrooge McDuck, Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck.

However, Matilda has since turned up alive and well, in a story by Don Rosa ; there she also refers to Hortense, though Hortense is not seen.

Hortense and Matilda changed their names to Duck after marriage, so, technically, Scrooge is the last McDuck.

Matilda McDuck is one of Scrooge McDuck's two sisters.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.