'The Queen of King Stephen, Pleading with the Empress Matilda, on behalf of Her Husband', 1838. Matilda I (1105-1152), Countess of Boulogne, was queen consort of England as the wife of King Stephen. Stephen was imprisoned in 1141 by Empress Matilda (c1102-1167), the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. From The History of England, Vol. 1, by David Hume, Esq. & Hewson Clarke, Esq. [Thomas Kelly, London, 1838]