The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart
Feature The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered. Catherine Hanley | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 6 June 2023 Stephen (left) and Henry II, from Les Roys de Engeltere, Anglo-Norman manuscript, late 13th century. © British Library Board.
- ▪Feature The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin.
- ▪With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.
- ▪Catherine Hanley | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 6 June 2023 Stephen (left) and Henry II, from Les Roys de Engeltere, Anglo-Norman manuscript, late 13th century. © British Library Board.
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Feature The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered. Catherine Hanley | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 6 June 2023 Stephen (left) and Henry II, from Les Roys de Engeltere, Anglo-Norman manuscript, late 13th century. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images In the summer of 1153 a broken man agreed to disinherit his son, in order to end a war that had splintered England into pieces for 19 years. The English reign of King Stephen (1135-54) was a disaster from start to finish, a time of such chaos that it was later dubbed ‘the Anarchy’.
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