. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. /. / HEN ( 127 ) HEN modation was made between them. Robert a second time to Geoffrey son of the count of resigned his pretensions to England for a pen- Anjou. The king himself took for a second sion-, each brother was to inherit the dominions wife Adelaide daughter of the duke of Lorrain, of the other in case of death without issue, and but she brought him no issue. Henry governed. the adherents of both were to rece
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. /. / HEN ( 127 ) HEN modation was made between them. Robert a second time to Geoffrey son of the count of resigned his pretensions to England for a pen- Anjou. The king himself took for a second sion-, each brother was to inherit the dominions wife Adelaide daughter of the duke of Lorrain, of the other in case of death without issue, and but she brought him no issue. Henry governed. the adherents of both were to receive full par- his dominions with much prudence, and though don. Henry, however, when the danger was he firmly maintained his authority, he was not over, made no scruple of infringing the latterpart of this agreement, and the ruin of somegreat families was the consequence. His am-bition soon after led him to retaliate the in-vasion of Robert; and in 1105 he landed with a deaf to the complaint of grievances. Of this hegave an instance in the severity with which hepunished the extortions committed in the abuseof the claim of purveyance. He also adoptedthe politic measure of s
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