The British nation a history / by George MWrong . PORCHESTER CaSTLE, BUILT ABOUT 1150. Note the few windows, to lessen danger fromattack. 92 THE BRITISH NATION with Matilda, and Stephen accepted Matildas son Henryas his heir. In this year, writes an annalist in 1154,The construct- P^sscd away King Stephen to the place toive forces of wliicli liis dcscrts led. The writer showst epeno . ^^^q r^ge of the time against a bad ruler. Yet Stephens reign was not wholly fruitless. Misfortuneis the Churchs opportunity, and in those years her powergrew. She alone could offer a secure haven amid the pre-va
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . PORCHESTER CaSTLE, BUILT ABOUT 1150. Note the few windows, to lessen danger fromattack. 92 THE BRITISH NATION with Matilda, and Stephen accepted Matildas son Henryas his heir. In this year, writes an annalist in 1154,The construct- P^sscd away King Stephen to the place toive forces of wliicli liis dcscrts led. The writer showst epeno . ^^^q r^ge of the time against a bad ruler. Yet Stephens reign was not wholly fruitless. Misfortuneis the Churchs opportunity, and in those years her powergrew. She alone could offer a secure haven amid the pre-vailing anarchy, and one hundred and nineteen monas-teries were built during the reign. While the functions of the state were para-lyzed, she held her syn-ods and kept up herown discipline. Itwas, too, in the law-less days of Stephenthat Vacarius camefrom Italy to Englandto lecture upon lawand to teach new con-ceptions of order. KY II. DICATED BY SHADING.). One truth all butthe barons strugglingfor their selfish inde-pendence could read—that the chief safe-guard of order was astrong king, and suchthe youth who nowcame to the thronewas to prove. Henry TI was a born ruler; at fifteen heswayed great continental dominions; at twenty-one he Henry was the son of the union of Geoffrey of Anjou witli line is called the Ansjevin line, and sometimes the Plantagenet,from the bit of the plant genet, or broom, worn by Geoffrey. REFORMING ERA OP HENRY II 93 Henry II inEurope. was sovereign of England. From his father he inheritedAnjou and adjoining regions ; from his mother, NormandyThe position of ^^^^ England; through his wife, Eleanor ofAquitaine, he controlled that state. He wasmaster of the seaeoast from the Pyrenees tothe Low Countries, and his continental dominions weretwice as great as those of the King of France. Yet amonghis peoples there was no unity, and a great part of hislife was passed in toilsome journeysthrough his realm
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