The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England,
enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and
1154. It ultimately brought about the end of the Norman dynasty and
the birth of the mighty Plantagenet kings. When Henry I died having
lost his only legitimate son in a shipwreck, he had caused all of
his barons to swear to recognize his daughter Matilda, widow of the
Holy Roman Emperor, as his heir and remarried her to Geoffrey,
Count of Anjou. When she was slow to move to England on her
father's death, Henry's favourite nephew Stephen of Blois rushed to
have himself crowned, much as Henry himself had done on the death
of his brother William Rufus. Supported by his brother Henry,
Bishop of Winchester, Stephen made a promising start, but Matilda
would not give up her birthright and tried to hold the English
barons to their oaths. The result was more than a decade of civil
war that saw England split apart. Empress Matilda is often
remembered as aloof and high-handed, Stephen as ineffective and
indecisive. By following both sides of the dispute and seeking to
understand their actions and motivations, Matthew Lewis aims to
reach a more rounded understanding of this crucial period of
English history and asks to what extent there really was anarchy.
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