survives her husband I will not give her in marriage unless .
she herself consents. .
Henry was very generous to his subjects and his nobles to gain the support of the country. To win the Anglo-Saxon and Scottish backing, Henry married a Scottish princess named Matilda, a direct descendant of an Old English Royal family. .
In July of 1101, Robert Curthose led a large force across the English Channel where he was joined by many Anglo-Norman forces who wanted the reunion of the two lands under the rule of a Norman Duke. This rebellion was quickly put down and Robert was captured and imprisoned for twenty-eight years until his death in 1134. With his capture of Normandy, Henry was able to reunite the Anglo-Norman legacy his father had formed 35 years earlier.
The Empress Matilda.
With the death of Henry I in December of 1135, the country was in disarray over the heir to the throne. At the time, their were three strong claimants: Robert, Earl of Gloucester, Henry's illegitimate son, Stephen, Count of Blois, Henry's nephew, and Henry's only surviving legitimate child, Matilda. By today's standards, the obvious heir would be Matilda, however, in 1135, standards were a bit different. The idea of a female ruler was not in the ideology of the court and an illegitimate heir was just as taboo.
In 1120, Henry I lost his only legitimate son in an accident on the high seas. William the Atherington was the heir to Henry's throne and with his death, it is safe to say that Henry never recovered, and England was to suffer for decades to come. In a way, the death of William was the cause of the civil war. Had William survived, neither Stephen nor Matilda would have had a claim to the throne, thus preventing a civil war from ever taking place. However, that was not the way it was meant to be.
Matilda was the only daughter of Henry I and his wife Matilda, and sister of William the Atherington, heir to the English and Norman thrones.
He became an extremely powerful leader and had become to take major interest in English affairs. ... Over the next sixteen years they had nine children. ... Harold of Wessex claimed that Edward promised him the throne just before he died on 5th January, 1066. ... This was the only time capitol punishment was inflicted on an English leader. ... During the fighting Matilda convinced the two men to end their feud. ...
This ambition of gaining power and authority over others makes him similar to Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play, who also sold his soul only to have power for 24 years. ... The bad character of Richard III was seen when he plotted and succeeded in eliminating three heirs to the throne before him, as well as King Edward IV himself (Shakespeare & Crowther 85). This plot was to ensure that he would manage to gain power and that he would ascend the throne. He did it because he was aware that he would not be able to ascend the throne unless his three elder brothers, including Edward IV who was ...
There he finds himself in the middle of the family feud and the families were fighting till the death. ... One of the men claims to be an English duke! And the other man was the late heir to the French throne, which made him a dauphin! ... The duke and dauphin enter the town and claim to be the English brothers. ... Jim is put back in captivity while Tom's aunt goes crazy over Tom's gunshot wound. ...
After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... Many of the people in the colonies considered themselves American, not English and felt that it was necessary to separate from Britain, no matter what the cost. ... The event widely accepted, as the trigger event is the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand; heir to the Austrian throne, by Serb nationalists on 28th June 1914....
After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... Many of the people in the colonies considered themselves American, not English and felt that it was necessary to separate from Britain, no matter what the cost. ... The event widely accepted, as the trigger event is the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand; heir to the Austrian throne, by Serb nationalists on 28th June 1914....
