Matilda was traditionally believed (assumed) to have been born at Winchester, as that was the primary royal capital where her mother, Queen Matilda of Scotland, frequently resided and where royal children were conventionally born. But research carried out by the historian John Fletcher in 1990 showed that the royal couple was staying at the Royal Palace in Sutton Courtenay when the Queen gave birth.
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