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King Stephen. King Stephen of England was the last of the Norman kings of England and his memory is forever tied to the long and vicious war he fought with his cousin, the Empress Matilda for England's crown. King Stephen's exact birth date is not known, but it is thought that he was born around 1097 in Blois in France.
4 Oliver and Richard Cromwell served as lords protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the republican Commonwealth. 5 William and Mary, as husband and wife, reigned jointly until Mary's death in 1694. William then reigned alone until his own death in 1702. 6 George IV was regent from February 5, 1811.
Matilda (Empress Maud), Stephen and The Anarchy, the ‘forgotten’ English Civil War of the 12th century…. Matilda was an indomitable woman! She was the daughter of King Henry I of England, and was his sole legitimate child after the death of his son Prince William in the ‘White Ship’ disaster.*. She was married first to Henry V of the ...
22 de oct. de 2013 · Stephen was born in or around 1097; anyway it is safe to assume his birth took place at the end of the 11 th century. His mother was Adela, a daughter of William I, a.k.a. ‘The Conquerer’, and his father was Stephen, Count of Blois in France. Stephen had promised to accept a daughter of Henry I King of England as Queen of that country.
Unless you were the son of a king, the hardest job to get in the Middle Ages was to become a king. Even if you were shrewd and had the backing of a strong army, the chances of successfully seizing the throne were often very low. Yet, in 1135 a nobleman named Stephen of Blois was able to become the King of England. Here is the story of his success.
RECENT WORKS on Stephen and his reign have added great depth and nuance to our understanding of England’s history from 1135 to 1154.¹ They give us a better sense of Stephen’s abilities and the difficulties he faced, the degree to which his government remained functioning, and the role of the magnates in the civil war that engulfed his reign.
18 de jul. de 2009 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Editor's preface.--Henry of Huntingdon's preface.--The history of the English.--the letter to Walter on the illustratious men of his age.--the acts of Kind Stephen, by an anonymous author.--General index.--Index to Huntingson's poems
