By SEWARD Desmond
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than the other family members - from Henry II, to Richard III. 4 kings have been murdered, got here with reference to deposition and one other used to be killed in a conflict by way of rebels. Shakespeare wrote performs approximately six of them, extra entrenching them within the nationwide Myth.
Based on significant modern resources and up to date study, acclaimed historian Desmond Seward presents the 1st readable evaluation of the complete remarkable dynasty, in a single quantity.
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In November he met the duke at Winchester, agreeing that Henry should succeed him and that stolen lands should be restored to those who had held them in 1135. In December Stephen issued a charter recognizing the duke as his heir and promising to demolish over 1,100 castles. The settlement did not go smoothly, Henry grumbling that the king was slow in pulling down the castles. When some Flemish mercenaries plotted to kill him, Henry went back to Normandy, staying there until Stephen died from a haemorrhage in October 1154.
They knew that her mother, another Matilda (originally Edith), had been the daughter of King Malcolm of Scots and his English Queen Margaret – sister of Edgar Atheling and granddaughter of the heroic King Edmund Ironside. Henry never forgot the example of his father William I, who had claimed to be Edward the Confessor’s heir. ’3 Like William, Henry took the old coronation oaths, promising to keep the Confessor’s laws, and ruled through Anglo-Saxon hundred and shire courts. He gave the son who predeceased him the title ‘Atheling’ borne by pre-Conquest heirs to the throne, while his choice of an English wife irked courtiers so much that they nicknamed the royal couple ‘Godwy and Godgifu’.
But during the last century the great reforming pope Gregory VII had insisted that clergy were immune from the laws governing laymen; a view with which Becket agreed. Judges told Henry that theft, robbery and murder were committed by clerics, who included not just priests but church doorkeepers and even church sweepers. They could only be tried by ecclesiastical courts, whose harshest penalties were defrocking or flogging. 26 Becket refused to surrender them to the secular authorities, but had the canon banished and the clerk branded, sentencing the priest to lifelong penance in a monastery.
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