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Sentence Examples Henry planned to resume war with France, but was plagued with financial problems, declining health and frequent rebellions. By 1135, major disputes between Henry I and Matilda drove the nobles previously loyal to Henry I against Matilda. This was Geoffrey's dying wish and he had ordered that he be left without sepulture until Henry promised. Eight weeks later she married Henry, thus Henry became duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and count of Poitiers. Now Henry refused to give Anjou to his brother because it would mean splitting his land in two. In July 1152, Capetian troops attacked Aquitaine while Louis, Eustace, Henry of Champagne, and Robert attacked Normandy. Henry was about to sail for England to pursue his claim when his lands were attacked. Louis would not interfere since Henry paid homage to him for his continental possessions. Henry crushed Geoffrey's revolt, and Geoffrey had to be satisfied with an annual pension. However, Henry II refused to back down despite Louis' apparent change of policy until the Norman Vexin was entirely recovered. Henry II absorbed the County of Mortain but wanted to grant Boulogne to Thierry's second son, Matthew, who married Marie of Boulogne. Henry II had to get Marie out of her convent first, which had been a common practice in England since the Normans. Conan IV then briefly ruled as Count, but Henry took the title that same year by mustering an army in Avranches to threaten Conan. Henry then supported Breton independence in 1161 when he secured the Archbishopric of Dol. The jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Tours would have overrun into Brittany if Henry hadn't appealed to Rome. Each of these invasions were followed by confiscations, and Henry II installed his men, William Fitzhamo and Rolland of Dinan, in the area. Henry II met Malcolm IV in 1157 about Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland previously seized by his grandfather, David I of Scotland. Henry II had to attack Wales three times, in 1157, 1158 and 1163 to have them answer his summons to the court. Henry then undertook a fourth invasion in 1164, this time with a massive army. Wales would remain safe for a while, but the invasion of Ireland in 1171 pressured Henry II to end the issue through negotiations with Lord Rhys. Show More Sentences There were further plans of expansion considered as Henry II's last brother didn't have a fiefdom. William X, Count of Poitou died in 1164 without being installed in Ireland, but Henry II didn't give up on the conquest of Ireland. Henry II attacked from the north while other of his allies, namely the Trencavels and Ramon Berenguer opened a different front. In 1171 Henry II set an alliance with Humbert of Maurienne adding one more enemy of Raymond V to his alliance. He paid homage to Henry II, to his son also called Henry and to his other son Richard the Lionheart newly appointed new Duke of Aquitaine. If Louis VII died without a male heir, Henry would have been a strong candidate for the French throne. Becket took refuge in France, and following this there were growing conflicts between Henry II and Becket. In 1167, Henry II marched into Auvergne, and in 1170 he also attacked Bourges. Louis VII answered by raiding the Norman Vexin, forcing Henry II to move his troops north, giving Louis the opportunity to free Bourges. Henry bought the County of Marche, then he asserted that the French Vexin and Bourges should be given at once. Henry ordered him to hand Aquitaine to his brother, John, but Richard refused. Henry II decided instead to insist Richard to nominally surrender Aquitaine to his mother whilst Richard retained would actual control. Still, in 1183, Count Raymond had taken Cahors back and so Henry II asked Richard to mount an expedition to retake the city. Philip attacked Henry in Normandy and captured strongholds in Berry, then they met to discuss peace again. Richard paid homage to Philip for the continental lands his father held then they attacked Henry together. Henry died two days later, after learning John, the only son that had previously never betrayed him, had joined Richard and Philip. Richard also recognised Auvergne as being in Philip's royal demense and not as part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, as Henry had claimed. Richard would surrender the kingdom of England to Henry, who would then give it back as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1197, Henry VI died and was replaced by Otto IV, Richard I's own nephew. But when Eleanor was divorced from Louis and married Henry II of England in 1152, the duchy passed to the English Crown. Show More Sentences Having suppressed a revolt in his new possession, Henry gave it to his son Richard. He was the third of five sons of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard was born on 8 September 1157, probably at Beaumont Palace, in Oxford, England, son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was a younger brother of Count William IX of Poitiers, Henry the Young King and Duchess Matilda of Saxony. As the third legitimate son of King Henry II, he was not expected to ascend the throne. The eldest son of Henry II and Eleanor, William, died in 1156, before Richard's birth. His elder brother Henry the Young King was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime. Henry II had conquered Brittany and taken control of Gisors and the Vexin, which had been part of Margaret's dowry. In 1171 Richard left for Aquitaine with his mother, and Henry II gave him the duchy of Aquitaine at the request of Eleanor. Eleanor was captured, so Richard was left to lead his campaign against Henry II's supporters in Aquitaine on his own. In the meantime Henry II had raised a very expensive army of more than 20,000 mercenaries with which to face the rebellion. Henry II's forces took Saintes by surprise and captured much of its garrison, although Richard was able to escape with a small group of soldiers. Henry the Young King and the Count of Flanders planned to land in England to assist the rebellion led by the Earl of Leicester. When Henry II and Louis VII made a truce on 8 September 1174, its terms specifically excluded Richard. Eleanor remained Henry II's prisoner until his death, partly as insurance for Richard's good behaviour. After the conclusion of the war, the process of pacifying the provinces that had rebelled against Henry II began. Henry seemed unwilling to entrust any of his sons with resources that could be used against him. Hoping to dethrone Richard, the rebels sought the help of his brothers Henry and Geoffrey. Finally, in 1183 Henry the Young King and Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, invaded Aquitaine in an attempt to subdue Richard. With the death of Henry the Young King, Richard became the eldest surviving son and therefore heir to the English crown. Show More Sentences This refusal is what finally made Henry II bring Queen Eleanor out of prison. Two days later Henry II died in Chinon, and Richard the Lionheart succeeded him as King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Count of Anjou. Eight days later Richard's own nephew Henry II of Champagne was married to the widowed Isabella, although she was carrying Conrad's child. On 28 March 1193 Richard was brought to Speyer and handed over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle. Henry VI needed money to raise an army and assert his rights over southern Italy and continued to hold Richard for ransom. In response Pope Celestine III excommunicated Henry VI, as he had Duke Leopold, for the continued wrongful imprisonment of Richard. Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall. Henry of Almain would remain a close companion of the prince, both through the civil war that followed, and later during the crusade. Although the endowments King Henry made were sizeable, they offered Edward little independence. The next year, King Henry sent him on a campaign in Wales against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, with only limited results. By the agreement known as the Mise of Lewes, Edward and his cousin Henry of Almain were given up as hostages to Montfort. Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in his reign, Edward I collected nine. An ordinary soldier might have died from such a wound, but Henry had the benefit of the best possible care. The operation was successful, but it left Henry with permanent scars, evidence of his experience in battle. Then, as a result of the king's ill health, Henry began to take a wider share in politics. After Henry IV died on 20 March 1413, Henry V succeeded him and was crowned on 9 April 1413 at Westminster Abbey, London, Kingdom of England. Henry tackled all of the domestic policies together and gradually built on them a wider policy. Henry lavishly entertained the emperor and even had him enrolled in the Order of the Garter. Henry had intended to crusade for the order after uniting the English and French thrones, but he died before fulfilling his plans. On 12 August 1415, Henry sailed for France, where his forces besieged the fortress at Harfleur, capturing it on 22 September. Show More Sentences Afterwards, Henry decided to march with his army across the French countryside towards Calais, despite the warnings of his council. However, Henry refused to allow this, and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town. Henry skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike approach. Upon Henry V's death, the infant Prince was made king and was crowned Henry VI of England. He had substantial support though from Guala, who intended to win the civil war for Henry and punish the rebels. As an additional measure, Henry took the cross, declaring himself a crusader and thereby entitled to special protection from Rome. Magna Carta became increasingly embedded into English political life during Henry III's minority. Henry remained a minor and his government's legal ability to make permanently binding decisions on his behalf was limited. In exchange for agreeing to support Henry, the barons demanded that the King reissue Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. Henry placed a symbolic emphasis on rebuilding royal authority, but his rule was relatively circumscribed by Magna Carta. Its meetings appear to have been intermittent, but it was revived by Henry VII for his heir, Prince Arthur. Having captured a small part of Ireland on the east coast, Henry used the land to solve a dispute dividing his family. Henry had wanted John to be crowned King of Ireland on his first visit in 1185, but Pope Lucius III specifically refused permission. In late 1185 the crown was ready, but John's visit had by then proved a complete failure, so Henry cancelled the coronation. After the humiliation of the Day of the Barricades, Henry III fled from Paris. In 1573, the king's brother, Henry, Duke of Anjou, was elected King of Poland. In 1399, after John of Gaunt died, Richard II disinherited Gaunt's son, the exiled Henry of Bolingbroke. In August 1415, Henry V sailed from England with a force of about 10,500 and laid siege to Harfleur. On 22 March 1421 Henry V's progress in his French campaign experienced an unexpected reverse. Henry had left his brother and presumptive heir Thomas, Duke of Clarence in charge while he returned to England. Show More Sentences At the end of May, Henry was joined by his queen and together with the French court, they went to rest at Senlis. Richard of Conisburgh was executed following his involvement in the Southampton Plot to depose Henry V of England in favour of the Earl of March. A coup attempt failed in late 1483, but in 1485 Richard met Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth Field. Their son Henry usurped the throne in 1399, creating one of the factions in the Wars of the Roses. Henry was coeval with Edward III and was pivotal to his reign, becoming his best friend and most trusted commander. Henry was knighted in 1330, represented his father in parliament and fought in Edward's Scottish campaign. The Earl of Northampton attacked from Brittany, Edward from Flanders, and Henry from Aquitaine in the south. Edward rewarded Henry by including him as a founding knight of the Order of the Garter. In 1350, Henry was present at the naval victory at Winchelsea, where he saved the life of the Black Prince. Richard had attempted to disinherit Henry and remove him from the succession. Henry became the focus of discontent as the population, agricultural production, prices, the wool trade and credit declined in the Great Slump. In 1450, Jack Cade raised a rebellion to force Henry to address the economic problems or abdicate his throne. Armed conflict was avoided because York lacked aristocratic support and was forced to swear allegiance to Henry. However, when Henry later underwent a mental breakdown, York was named regent. Henry was captured by the opposition when the Nevilles returned and won the Battle of Northampton. Henry, Margaret and Edward of Lancaster were caught at the Battle of Tewkesbury before they could escape back to France. The captive Henry was murdered on 21 May 1471 in the Tower of London and buried in Chertsey Abbey, extinguishing the House of Lancaster. With the House of Lancaster extinct, Henry claimed to be the Lancastrian heir through his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort. In 1485, Henry Tudor united increasing opposition within England to the reign of Richard III with the Lancastrian cause to take the throne. In 1400, poets in the pay of Henry IV were directed to propaganda purposes. Show More Sentences After assuming the throne as Henry VII, he married Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter and heir of Edward IV, thereby uniting the two claims. The House of Tudor ruled the Kingdom of England until 1603, with the death of Elizabeth I, granddaughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. After Lancastrian revolts in the north were suppressed in 1464 and Henry was captured once again and placed in the Tower of London. He was crowned Henry VII, and married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, to unite and reconcile the two houses. William the Conqueror's son King Henry I of England died in 1135, after his only male heir was killed aboard the White Ship. He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered. The x. of Awgust Maximilian emperowr of Almayne came to kynge Henry of England besyde Terwen, and there the emperowre had wages of the kynge. A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections. If Billy Lane hadn't given him duch a firm handshake, Henry reckons he'd be wondering if all the Banana-benders shook like a girl. Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux. Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years. The time of Henry VII nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days. Henry puts his hands on my waist and expresses surprise at all the boning and corsetry under the silk. Would you rather... be donkey-punched by John Madden OR receive Arabian Goggles From the WWE's Mark Henry? There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster. In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales. Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges. Henry didn't doubt the little boys and girls knew that this place was haunted, just like all the growed-ups did. Show More Sentences In 1502, James IV of Scotland signed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Henry VII of England. For Henry, the marriage into one of Europe's most established monarchies gave legitimacy to the new Tudor royal line. In 1259, Henry III of England recognised the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris. Under Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its Portsmouth base, the island was fortified at Yarmouth, Cowes, East Cowes, and Sandown. The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa from 1418, under the sponsorship of Prince Henry. In particular, they were discovered by voyages launched by the command of Prince Henry the Navigator. That year John Cabot, also a commissioned Italian, got letters patent from King Henry VII of England. In 1608, Henry Hudson made a second attempt, trying to go across the top of Russia. Henry II developed the practice of sending judges from his own central court to hear the various disputes throughout the country. Upon the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII the abbots and mitred priors lost their positions in Parliament. The first is referred to today as potting and stamping, but this was superseded by Henry Cort's puddling process. The paper machine is known as a Fourdrinier after the financiers, brothers Sealy and Henry Fourdrinier, who were stationers in London. Internal tariffs were abolished by Henry VIII of England, they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain. The Manor house building was established in about 1300 AD by Henry of Kingswood as a tithe barn. Henry Tudor, sympathiser to the House of Lancaster, defeated and killed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field. He then became King Henry VII and married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Yorkist Edward IV, ending the wars. She also began to build up the kingdom's naval strength, on the foundations Henry VIII had laid down. In return, Henry was required to remit a penny per hearth of the tax roll to the Pope. Henry had broken away from the Holy See and declared himself the head of the Church in England. Henry was proclaimed King of Ireland by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542, an Act of the Irish Parliament. Show More Sentences Parliament in this period came to be known as Grattan's Parliament, after the principal Irish leader of the period, Henry Grattan. Margaret also gave Malcolm two daughters, Edith, who married Henry I of England, and Mary, who married Eustace III of Boulogne. In the 1870s, Furnivall unsuccessfully attempted to recruit both Henry Sweet and Henry Nicol to succeed him. The duchy was divided in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Lombardy. In 1171, Henry arrived in Ireland in order to review the general progress of the expedition. In 1172, the new pope, Alexander III, further encouraged Henry to advance the integration of the Irish Church with Rome. Henry was authorised to impose a tithe of one penny per hearth as an annual contribution. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, was one of the principal figures of Antarctic exploration. The famous cleric Gerald of Wales tells, in his Descriptio Cambriae, a story of King Henry II of England. Stonehenge has changed ownership several times since King Henry VIII acquired Amesbury Abbey and its surrounding lands. In 1894 Sir Henry Meux put a trench through the bank, which gave the first indication that the earthwork was built in two phases. Henry VIII restored his authority by establishing the Council of the North in York in the dissolved St Mary's Abbey. It was founded in 1862 by Henry Isaac Rowntree, who was joined in 1869 by his brother the philanthropist Joseph. The Reformation in England began in 1534, when King Henry VIII had himself declared head of the Church of England. Both Henry of Huntingdon and Matthew of Westminster talk of a golden dragon being raised at the Battle of Burford in AD 752 by the West Saxons. Soon after the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, during the reign of Henry VIII, the church was demolished, leaving the graves intact. In the 1230s King Henry III became attached to the cult of Saint Edward, and he commissioned a new life by Matthew Paris. The practice of slavery was not outlawed, and the Leges Henrici Primi from the reign of King Henry I continue to mention slaveholding as legal. Henry and Geoffrey led another invasion of Normandy in 1057 but were defeated by William at the Battle of Varaville. Henry attempted to dislodge William, but the Siege of Thimert dragged on for two years until Henry's death. Show More Sentences The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark. The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland. Bethencourt took the title of King of the Canary Islands, as vassal to Henry III of Castile. The family held the English throne from 1154, with the accession of Henry II, until 1485, when Richard III died. Henry I had the marriage annulled to avoid strengthening William's rival claim to Normandy. Henry also had illegitimate children with several mistresses, possibly as many as twelve. Henry reasserted and extended previous suzerainties to secure possession of his inherited realm. Henry and Becket had repeated disputes over issues such as church tenures, the marriage of Henry's brother, and taxation. Henry did not personally act on this until 1171 by which time William was already dead. In 1172 Henry gave John the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau as a wedding gift. Henry was forced to accept humiliating peace terms, including naming Richard his sole heir. In his political struggles, Henry perceived many similarities between himself and England's patron saint, Edward the Confessor. At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, Henry and Prince Edward were defeated and taken prisoner. Savage retribution was inflicted upon the rebels, and authority restored to Henry. The couple invaded England and, with Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, captured the king. Later they were joined by Henry Bolingbroke, the son and heir of John of Gaunt, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. Meeting little resistance, Henry deposed Richard to have himself crowned Henry IV of England. Henry married his Plantagenet cousin Mary de Bohun, who was paternally descended from Edward I and maternally from Edmund Crouchback. Many saw it as a punishment from God when Henry was later struck down with unknown but chronic illnesses. In subsequent years Henry recaptured much of Normandy and secured marriage to Catherine of Valois. Show More Sentences However, under Henry misgovernment and harvest failures depressed the English economy to a pitiful state known as the Great Slump. When Henry VI had a mental breakdown, Richard was named regent, but the birth of a male heir resolved the question of succession. York and the Nevilles fled abroad, but the Nevilles returned to win the Battle of Northampton, where they captured Henry. Tudor assumed the throne as Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty and bringing the Plantagenet line of kings to an end. Margaret's fortunes improved under Henry VIII and in February 1512 she was restored to the earldom of Salisbury and all the Warwicks' lands. His mother married Henry VII's uncle Jasper Tudor, and his wardship was entrusted to the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. Therefore, Henry VIII instructed Wolsey to watch Buckingham, his brother Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and three other peers. Henry was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. Young Henry and Geoffrey revolted again in 1183, resulting in Young Henry's death. Decisively defeated by Philip and Richard and suffering from a bleeding ulcer, Henry retreated to Chinon in Anjou, where he died. Henry's mother, firstly married to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, was the eldest daughter of Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy. Henry returned to Anjou in either 1143 or 1144, resuming his education under William of Conches, another famous academic. Surprisingly, Henry instead turned to King Stephen, who paid the outstanding wages and thereby allowed Henry to retire gracefully. Henry intervened once again in 1149, commencing what is often termed the Henrician phase of the civil war. Under this alliance, Henry and Ranulf agreed to attack York, probably with help from the Scots. The planned attack disintegrated after Stephen marched rapidly north to York, and Henry returned to Normandy. Not as reserved as his mother Matilda, nor as charming as his father Geoffrey, Henry was famous for his energy and drive. Henry was said to have understood a wide range of languages, including English, but spoke only Latin and French. At around this time Henry was also probably secretly planning his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, then still the wife of Louis. Louis had the marriage annulled and Henry married Eleanor eight weeks later on 18 May. Show More Sentences With his new lands, Henry now possessed a much larger proportion of France than Louis. Louis organised a coalition against Henry, including Stephen, Eustace, Henry the Count of Champagne, and Robert the Count of Perche. Louis fell ill and withdrew from the campaign, and Geoffrey was forced to come to terms with Henry. In response to Stephen's siege, Henry returned to England again at the start of 1153, braving winter storms. A delegation of senior English clergy met with Henry and his advisers at Stockbridge shortly before Easter in April. Henry successfully evaded Stephen's larger army along the River Avon, preventing Stephen from forcing a decisive battle. Henry was then free to turn his forces south against the besiegers at Wallingford. Meanwhile, Henry was attempting to act the part of a legitimate king, witnessing marriages and settlements and holding court in a regal fashion. The peace remained precarious, however, and Stephen's second son William remained a possible future rival to Henry. Rumours of a plot to kill Henry were circulating and, possibly as a consequence, Henry decided to return to Normandy for a period. Nonetheless, Henry inherited a difficult situation in England, as the kingdom had suffered extensively during the civil war. Henry presented himself as the legitimate heir to Henry I and commenced rebuilding the kingdom in his image. Henry was also careful to show that, unlike his mother the Empress, he would listen to the advice and counsel of others. Henry also invested heavily in the construction and renovation of prestigious new royal buildings. Further south, Theobald V, the Count of Blois, an enemy of Louis, became another early ally of Henry. On his return to the continent from England, Henry sought to secure his French lands and quash any potential rebellion. For a short while, a permanent peace between Henry and Louis looked plausible. When Geoffrey died in 1158, Conan attempted to reclaim Nantes but was opposed by Henry who annexed it for himself. Louis took no action to intervene as Henry steadily increased his power in Brittany. Henry hoped to take a similar approach to regaining control of Toulouse in southern France. Show More Sentences Louis also betrothed his two daughters Marie and Alix to Theobald of Blois's sons, Theobald and Henry. As a powerful ruler, Henry was able to provide either valuable patronage or impose devastating harm on his subjects. Henry tried to maintain a sophisticated household that combined hunting and drinking with cosmopolitan literary discussion and courtly values. In 1163 Henry returned to England, intent on reforming the role of the royal courts. Local juries were used occasionally in previous reigns, but Henry made much wider use of them. Insofar as Henry had a policy it was to generally push back on papal influence, increasing his own local authority. After the death of Becket, Henry built and endowed various monasteries in France, primarily to improve his popular image. Medieval rulers such as Henry enjoyed various sources of income during the 12th century. These measures were successful in improving his income, but on his return to England in the 1160s Henry took further steps. Meanwhile, Henry had begun to alter his policy of indirect rule in Brittany and started to exert more direct control. In 1164 Henry intervened to seize lands along the border of Brittany and Normandy, and in 1166 invaded Brittany to punish the local barons. Elsewhere in France, Henry attempted to seize the Auvergne, much to the anger of the French king. In 1165 Raymond divorced Louis's sister and attempted to ally himself with Henry instead. Henry was then free to move against the rebel barons in Brittany, where feelings about his seizure of the duchy were still running high. As the decade progressed, Henry increasingly wanted to resolve the question of the inheritance. This would require the consent of Louis as king of France, and accordingly Henry and Louis held fresh peace talks in 1169 at Montmirail. In February 1173, Raymond finally gave in and publicly gave homage for Toulouse to Henry and his heirs. One of the major international events surrounding Henry during the 1160s was the Becket controversy. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theobald of Bec, died in 1161 Henry saw an opportunity to reassert his rights over the church in England. Both Matilda and Eleanor appear to have had doubts about the appointment, but Henry continued regardless. Show More Sentences The argument between Henry and Becket became both increasingly personal and international in nature. Henry harassed Becket's associates in England, and Becket excommunicated religious and secular officials who sided with the king. By 1169, however, Henry had decided to crown his son Young Henry as king of England. Furthermore, the whole Becket matter was an increasing international embarrassment to Henry. He began to take a more conciliatory tone with Becket but, when this failed, had Young Henry crowned anyway by the Archbishop of York. Henry was focused on dealing with Ireland and took no action to arrest Becket's killers, arguing that he was unable to do so. Diarmait turned to Henry for assistance in 1167, and the English king agreed to allow Diarmait to recruit mercenaries within his empire. In 1173 Henry faced the Great Revolt, an uprising by his eldest sons and rebellious barons, supported by France, Scotland and Flanders. Young Henry was unhappy that, despite the title of king, in practice he made no real decisions and was kept chronically short of money by Henry. Young Henry had also been very attached to Thomas Becket, his former tutor, and may have held his father responsible for Becket's death. Richard was encouraged to join the revolt as well by Eleanor, whose relationship with Henry, as previously described, had disintegrated. An army was dispatched to drive back the Brittany rebels, whom Henry then pursued, surprised and captured. Henry offered to negotiate with his sons, but these discussions at Gisors soon broke down. Henry took advantage of this respite to crush the rebel strongholds in Touraine, securing the strategically important route through his empire. In January 1174 the forces of Young Henry and Louis attacked again, threatening to push through into central Normandy. The prospective Flemish invasion forced Henry to return to England in early July. Word then reached Henry that King William had been defeated and captured by local forces at Alnwick, crushing the rebel cause in the north. The remaining English rebel strongholds collapsed and in August Henry returned to Normandy. Philip of Flanders declared his neutrality towards Henry, in return for which the King agreed to provide him with regular financial support. Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons. Show More Sentences Henry began to grant John more lands, mostly at various nobles' expense, and in 1177 made him the Lord of Ireland. Henry refused, but agreed to increase his son's allowance, but this was not enough to placate Young Henry. Henry was furious, and ordered John and Geoffrey to march south and retake the duchy by force. This proved enough and Richard finally handed over the ducal castles in Aquitaine to Henry. The bickering and simmering tensions between Henry and Richard were cleverly exploited by the new French king, Philip Augustus. Philip Augustus regarded Geoffrey as a close friend, and would have welcomed him as a successor to Henry. With the death of Geoffrey, however, the relationship between Henry and Philip broke down. Richard was keen to start his crusade, but was forced to wait for Henry to make his arrangements. Richard's campaign undermined the truce between Henry and Philip and both sides again mobilised large forces in anticipation of war. A furious Richard, however, believed that Henry was stalling for time and delaying the departure of the crusade. The relationship between Henry and Richard finally dissolved into violence shortly before Henry's death. Henry refused the proposal, whereupon Richard himself spoke up, demanding to be recognised as Henry's successor. By now Henry was suffering from a bleeding ulcer that would ultimately prove fatal. Suddenly, however, Henry turned back south towards Anjou, against the advice of his officials. Henry evaded the enemy forces on his way south and collapsed in his castle at Chinon. Henry was carried back to Chinon on a litter, where he was informed that John had publicly sided with Richard in the conflict. Henry was not a popular king and few expressed much grief on news of his death. Significant gaps in historical analysis of Henry remain, especially the nature of his rule in Anjou and the south of France. The empire was established by Henry II, as King of England, Count of Anjou, and Duke of Normandy. Other historians argue that Henry II's empire was neither powerful, centralised, nor large enough to be seriously called an empire. Find more words! 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