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1100. 2 August. William II, Rufus, shot by accident, it was said, with an arrow, while hunting in the New Forest. It was fired by Walter Tirel, a French knight. Some suspected murder.
1100. August. The new king is Henry I and not, as expected, Henry's older brother Robert Curthose who was on a Crusade to the Holy Land at the time.
1100. 11 November. Henry I married Matilda, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland,in Westminster Abbey.
1102. Welsh revolt in South Wales put down
1103. Beginning of the Investiture Controversy in England. Henry I joined with rulers across Christendom who since 1076 had disputed the pope's singular right to invest senior clergy.
1106. Pope Pascal is eager for Henry I support for Crusades and makes some concessions on Investiture Controversy
1106. Henry I conquered Normandy and deposed his brother Robert Curthose
1106. Pope Pascal eager for Henry I support for Crusades and makes some concessions on Investiture Controversy
Anslem Archbishop of Canterbury
1107. 1 August. The Concordat of London settled the Investiture Controversy between England and the papacy. The Papacy and wider Christendom remained at odds.
1107. Henry secures more lands in South Wales
1110. Westminster . An accounting system based on a tablecloth divided in to rows and columns similar to a chequer board - hence it became known as the Exchequer
1116 Welsh Castles ....
1120. 25 Nov. The White Ship Disaster. The ship, bound for England transporting many nobles, including the heir to the English throne, William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of Henry I of England, sank in English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur. Only one of 300 people aboard, a butcher from Rouen, survived.[
1122. Concordat of Worms finally settled the long standing Investiture Controversy in Europe. It was based on the Concordat of London of 1107.
1123. Catholic Church.
The First Council of the Lateran followed and confirmed the concordat of Worms.
1128. Geoff married Matilda
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Handsome, the Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144.
Geoffrey's marriage to Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and Duke of Normandy, led through their son, Henry II, to the 300-year long reign of the Plantagenet dynasty in England. Although it was never his family name or last name, "Plantagenet" was taken for the dynasty from Geoffrey's epithet, long after his death. Geoffrey was 'of Anjou', his ancestral domain of Anjou in north central France gives rise to the name Angevin, and what modern historians name as the Angevin Empire in the 12th century.
1133. 5 March. Henry II, the future king of England is born in Le Mans, France, to parents Geoffrey V of Anjou and Matilda.
1135. Henry I died which ignited a civil war of succession between Stephen of Blois and Matilda Queen of England. They were supported by Eustace of Boulogne (son of Stephen) and Robert of Gloucester (Henry I's illegitimate son) respectively
c.1138
The Anarchy began, a civil war resulting from a dispute over succession to the throne that lasted until 1153.
1139. Roman Catholic Church.The Second Council of the Lateran declared clerical marriages invalid, regulated clerical dress, and punished attacks on clerics by excommunication.
c.1138 - 1153 Civil war rages in England
1153. Eustace of Boulogne, presumed heir to the throne died suddenly - cause unknown -"He was an evil man and did more harm than good wherever he went. He spoiled the lands and laid thereon heavy taxes - Peterborough Chronicle
1157. 8 September
Richard the Lionheart, the future king of England, is born to parents Henry II and Elanor of Aquitaine.
1164. Constitutions of Clarendon
published by Henry II. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury argued vehemently against the Constitutions and the consequential secular powers in the church.
1166. 24 December John Lackland, the future king of England (r. 1199-1216), is born to parents Henry II and Elanor of Aquitaine.
1170. Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas Becket murdered by four knights. They believed they were carrying out the instructions of the king
1179. Roman Catholic Church. The Third Council of the Lateran limited papal electees to the cardinals alone, condemned simony, forbade the promotion of anyone to the episcopate before the age of thirty.
1189. 6 July Henry II died, aged 56 at his Chateaux at Chinon in France. His son Richard I, the Lionheart is the new King of England.
1192 .Crusades: King Richard I captured by Austrian Duke Leopold V, Duke of Austria while returning from the Holy Land.
1199. 6 April 1199 Richard I died at Châlus, Aquitaine after being shot, on 26 March 1199, in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt, and the wound turned gangrenous
1199. 27 May, King John succeeded his brother Richard I as King of England
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