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5 giorni fa · When he died in December 1135, the couple were in Anjou, allowing Matilda's cousin Stephen to seize the crown of England. Stephen's contested accession initiated the widespread civil unrest later called the Anarchy.
11 ore fa · Henry I ( c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus inherited Normandy and England ...
2 giorni fa · To draw Stephen's forces away from Wallingford, Henry besieged Stephen's castle at Malmesbury, and the King responded by marching west with an army to relieve it. Henry successfully evaded Stephen's larger army along the River Avon, preventing Stephen from forcing a decisive battle.
4 giorni fa · The King’s nephew, Stephen, had, upon his uncle’s death, usurped the throne from Empress Matilda, the King’s daughter. Stephen’s otherwise tenuous claim was strengthened by support from his brother the Bishop of Winchester, and the nobles’ discontent both with the idea of having a female leader, and Matilda’s ‘enemy’ husband, the Count of Anjou.
4 giorni fa · The king of England has promised her, for this, that he will pay her 2,750l. of Anjou a year, and has pledged his faith (affidavit) in the hand of the archbishop of Rheims that he will pay half [that sum] to the Templars at Ste. Vaubourg (St. Waubor) on the fourth Sunday after Easter and within eight days following, to be assigned by ...
3 giorni fa · John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy, Aquitain, and earl of Anjou; to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, stewards, castle-keepers, constables, bailiffs, ministers, and all his faithful subjects, greeting:
2 giorni fa · Focusing on two 12th-century works of Latin verse written during the reign of Geoffrey of Anjou and his wife, the Empress Matilda, the short poem Rothoma nobilis (named here after its opening line) and Stephen of Rouen’s Draco Normannicus, van Houts is able to demonstrate that these Anglo-Norman poets compared, and sometimes even ...
