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With his new found power, Henry led an expedition to England against King Stephen. This led to Stephen agreeing that Henry should become his heir. This and the death of Stephen’s eldest son, brought to an end the Anarchy. Stephen died in 1154 and Henry was crowned King Henry II of England. His lands became known as the Angevin Empire.
Henry II was king of England from 1154 to 1189. The first of three Angevin kings of England, he expanded the Anglo-French domains and strengthened the royal administration. His quarrels with the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, and with various family members (including his son, Richard the Lionheart) ultimately brought about his defeat.
27 de jun. de 2018 · Henry II (1133–89), king of England (1154–89). The first of the Plantagenet kings of England was also one of the most able of all this country's monarchs. His achievements are the more remarkable since his responsibilities encompassed not just England, but also two-thirds of France as well, for Henry was also duke of Normandy, count of Anjou, and, by right of his wife Eleanor, duke of ...
Hace 6 días · Henry and his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine were crowned in Westminster Abbey on Sunday 19th December 1154 by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury. His titles were King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and Count of Anjou and Maine. His son, Henry the Younger, had a coronation on 14th June 1170, in an attempt to settle the succession to the ...
T he reign of Henry II has long been regarded, and rightly, as a period of major importance in the history of English law. For most legal historians it is the period when it first becomes possible to recognise the existence of an English ‘Common Law’: both a set of national legal institutions bringing law and justice to the whole of England, and a body of legal rules applicable over the ...
Henry II, now weak and fatally ill, was thus obliged to agree to a complete surrender. He would formally recognise the French king as his overlord, pay Philip II compensation and grant him key castles, and nominate Richard as his heir in England. En route to Chinon, Henry II was informed that his youngest son John had publicly sided with Richard.
Henry II (5 March 1133 6 July 1189) ruled as Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and as King of England (11541189) and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland, eastern Ireland, and western France. His sobriquets include "Curt Mantle" (because of the practical short cloaks he wore), "Fitz Empress", and sometimes "The Lion of Justice ...
