hrone. Stephen's second son, William, was paid off very handsomely with large grounds, with large tracks of land. Henry's father was Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and the dinasty consequently became known as the Plantegenet.
Although king of England, Henry was much concerned with matters in France, after all, he was born there, and he didn't visit England until he was 9 years old. And he eventually died in France. Henry certainly had his work cut out. There were troublesome Scots to contend with as well as very troublesome Celts and greedy and unpredictable barrers from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. Energetically he sackled the celtegies that dolmed [Домдах або догд ...] his reign. Yet his new rule swift clean approach, which undoubted the House to restore some order to England is largerly forgotten by history. Henry is remembered as the king who was responsible for the death of///Thomas Becket. But he is not remembered as the king who put the end of the Anarchy in the country. Who was Becket? Becket was the son of a London merchant who rose to become Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry was convinced, he had a tay churchment in the form of Thomas Becket, who was Henry's personal and loyal friend. On that count the appointment suited Henry well as he was aiming to reduce (renew) the power of the Church. He wanted an end to the system, in which the Church organized its own lands and often they were bigger than the King's lands. Likewise Henry felt flue in the state of his own authority. He was too sure of Thomas Becket's loyalty.
Henry///into the Church was known as the Constitutions of Clarington of 1164. It was a written document and it contained 15 points. There, in those Constitutions, Becket and his bishops ought the proposals for two days before caming in. Almost immediately Becket regretted his decision and stood once again for the intract of the Church, and he became in opposition to the King. Consequently Henry had Becket arrested and in 1165 the country's most emenant and very prominent churchman sled into exire. It was five years before his return to England to review his battle of will with Henry. In a sit of altrage at his court in Normandie Henry burst out: "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?? "In a response four knights made their way to England, found Becket in Canterbury Cathedral and on 29th of December 1170 slade him with their swords. It was a disastrous fact, that an elegement and illument churchman was killed in a cathedral. Henry was grief-stricken, when he heard about the killing. He even imprisoned himself in a room for three days. And, as it all goes in history, three days later after his death Thomas Becket was canonized. And Henry always maintained that he had never ordered the killing, but he is remembered in the history as a king, who had killed a churchman in the church.
If Henry believed his worst enemies were abroad, he was sadly mistaken. In the last years of this life his wife and three of his sons plotted against him. Eleanor (of Aquitaine, his wife) imprisoned the knight's misstress, when his eldest son, who was also called Henry, was crowned successor in 1169, his second son Richard was insensed by a considential work both later joined forces with Philip II of France and waded war on their father. John, Henry's favourite son, joined them. By now both, Henry the younger and Geoffrey, Henry's other son, were dead. The aggressors compelled a heart-broken king Henry to accept a shamefully humiliating peace. He couldn't take that and a month later he died.
Richard was crowned King of England in 1189 in Westminster. It was one of the few occasions he visited the country during his reign. It is calculated that during a decade of his rule he spent less than a year with his foot on English soil, so he was always at war with someone. Nor was it the happy occasion he might have wished. By his eld (own) degree Jews were bent from the coronation. With some turned up they were attacked by Richard's people. Many Jews were killed during the coronation and their belief (though released-??) was badly damaged and injured. The incident sparkled a pogrom in London and Jews were routed out for a century out of London. p> Richard, despite his foreign travels, was a very popular king. He won the name Richard Lionheart, although his personal brevity is always the question, because many historians think, that in many cases he simply left the battle field and he didn't fight for it. It was the lewer [льюе] of the first crusade, that took Richard overseas. Jerusalem, at that time and still it is the centre of Christianity, was once again under control of Muslims and it was led by// /. Prompted by attacks of pilgrims the both sanction another crusade. Richard though stayed in England long enough to raise taxes to pay for this Third Crusade. He jok...
