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Title: Public school history of England and Canada, with introduction, hints to teachers, and brief examination questions
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912
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Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark co. ltd
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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, for she had married Geoffrey ofAnjou, who, with his following of Angevins, or men of Anjou,was always at war with Normandy. To obtain the throne, Stephenhad to make concessions to conciliate those who othenvise mighttake up the cause of Matilda. The barons taking advantage ofthis, and spurning the kings feeble authority, set up a reign ofanarchy. They robbed and plundered, and from their Normancastles grievously oppressed and tortured the people. To add toBattle of the ^^^ disorder. King David of Scotland, who was relatedstandard, to Matilda, invaded the kingdom ; but he was routed Northkuerton, at the BATTLE OF THE STANDARD. For fourteenA.D. 1138. years the country passed through the horrors of civilwar. Fortune was fickle in the long contest, for at one timeStephen was captured and Matilda declared queen; at another,Matilda was shut up by Stephens forces in Oxford, and to saveher life had a romantic escape. The struggle was marked through- A.D. 1154.J CROWN, CHURCH, AND BARONS. 2%
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124: PUBLIC SCHOOL ENGLISH HISTORY. (Chap. Y. out by every kind of outrage, which the hired troops brought fromthe continent by both parties took a grim pleasure in committing.Finally, Matilda had to withdraw to Normandy. Six years later,however, the quarrel was taken up by her son, Henry of Anjou,whom Stephen was compelled to acknowledge heir to the throne.In the following year Stephen died. 2. Succession of Henry II.—The accession of Henry H. marksthe beginning of the rule of the Angevin or Anjou Kings, some-times called the Plantagenets. The latter title is derived fromthe Latin name of the common broom of Anjou (the plantagenista), a sprig of which Henr/s father, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou,used to wear in his helmet. Henrys French dominions were larger than those of the king of France, of whom heand personal ^^^^ a vassal; for they extended from the EnglishHeSrv II °^ Channel to the Pyrenees. From his mother he in-herited Normandy ; and from his father, Anjou,Maine, and Touraine

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