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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Henry II's correction of the abuses of power by the sheriffs who, under the weak rule of King Stephen, were servants of the local barons.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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HENRY II (1154-1189), son of Matildaand Geoffrey of Anjou, finally succeeded to the throne, finding the foundations of a powerful monarchy still intact.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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In 1154 the energetic Henry II came to the throne of England and Malcolm was careful to only do homage to Henry for his land in England, not for Scotland.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Pope Adrian IV granted Ireland to King Henry II of England on the condition that he bring order to the Irish church and state.
King Henry II of England established an Order in 1174, but it was so thoroughly erased by anti-Catholic King Henry VIII in 1534 that only tradition remains as a record of that Order's very existence.
The Plantagenet dynasty, founded by Henry II of the French House of Anjou, seized the English throne in 1154 and ruled England until the accession of Henry Tudor in 1485.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine are engaged in a battle of wits, strategy, and perhaps weapons as they battle over which of their three sons will inherit Henry's throne.
John was the youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was given at an early age the nickname of Lackland because, unlike his elder brothers, he received no apanage in the continental provinces.
Henry II (1154-1189) replaced this obligation with cash payments known as scutage (or shield-money, from the Latin scutum, or shield) and used the money to pay for a permanent professional army of 'soldiers' as they commonly became known after this time from the (Latin) solidus or king's shilling that they earned as regular pay.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Pope Urban II calls the crusade to strengthen the Gregorian papacy by bringing the Greek Orthodox Church under papal authority and by humiliating the German emperor Henry IV who had forced Urban to flee Italy.
Henry II appointed him chancellor in 1155 and even though they were soon quarrelling the King still had him created Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162.
In 1154 Henry II placed his friend Thomas Beckett as Chancellor and later Archbishop of Canterbury.
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