Matilda is re-positioned by the new headmaster to the sixth grade level of schooling, where she discovers that she is no longer capable of accessing her powers of telekinesis, and Miss Honey theorizes that it is probably because Matilda must mandatorily use more of her knowledge at school after skipping several grades.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Afonso's first wife was Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Renaud, Count of Dammartin, and Ida, Countess of Boulogne.

Henry IV begging forgiveness of Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, the castle of the Countess Matilda, 1077.

Henry made his way to the Canossa where the Pope was staying in the castle of Countess Matilda.

Matilda ’ s discovery of the Countess and her subsequent informing others of the Countess's presence destroys the Count's secret.

In accordance with this last policy, the marriage of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with Guelph of Bavaria was promoted ; Prince Conrad of Italy was assisted in his rebellion against his father and crowned King of the Romans at Milan in 1093 ; and Henry IV's wife, the Empress ( Adelaide ), was encouraged in her charges of sexual coercion against her husband.

** Philip ( July 120014 / 18 January 1234 ), Count of Boulogne by marriage ; married Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne and had issue.

* May 3 – Matilda of Boulogne, sovereign Countess of Boulogne and queen of Stephen of England ( b. 1105 )

* July 24 – Matilda, Countess of Tuscany ( b. 1046 )

He also recognized papal claims to the Matildine lands ( formerly owned by Countess Matilda ), in exchange receiving those lands as fiefs.

* Countess Matilda of Boulogne, wife of Stephen of England ( d. 1152 ).

* Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne

He disputed with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I over the disposal of the territories of the late Countess Matilda of Tuscany.

Later the city was part of the possessions of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany, becoming a free commune starting from the 12th century.

Begun under the direction of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with its first stone laid June 6, 1099 and its crypt ready for the city's patron, Saint Geminianus, and consecrated only six years later, the Duomo of Modena was finished in 1184.

Eustace IV ( c. 1129 – 17 August 1153 ), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of King Stephen of England and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne.

William Adelin had got into a small boat and could have escaped but turned back to try to rescue his half-sister, Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, when he heard her cries for help.

When Philip died of disease in 1191, unsuccessful in producing an heir with Countess Matilda, he was succeeded in Flanders by Baldwin V, although the two had been on seemingly uncordial terms since the 1186 treaty.

By his first wife Agnes I, Countess of Nevers he had one child, Matilda I, Countess of Nevers.

* 1232-1232 Matilda of Chester, Countess of Chester suo jure ( 1171 – 1233 ) ( Inherited Oct 1232 – inter vivos gift to son Nov 1232 )