Great video! Interestingly, Henry II was the first King of English to be descended from both the Normans and the original Anglo-Saxon kings; his maternal grandmother was a great-granddaughter of Edmund Ironside
Interesting how you didn’t bring up the foundation of Common Law once in a video about Henry II. Unfortunately, this video makes the fatal error of concentration heavily on the Becket affair which, as Henry’s greatest biographer W.L. Warren points out, has less bearing on his actual reign. Nicholas Vincent has written how little power Henry effectively lost in the affair and it’s great disservice to the greatest English medieval monarch to concentrate so heavily on it.
Henry II Reign 1153-1189 0:31 Rigorous Military Acquisitions in France. 0:43 He had killed Thomas Beckett, The Archbishop of Canterbury. 2:00 Stephen vs Empress Matilda. 2:47 1147 Henry II crosses the English Channel to go fight, but runs out of money to fund his army. 3:12 19 And a Man. He marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, who is 11 years his senior, and SHE WAS ALREADY Married. 4:12 Henry II said he would restore England after years of Stephen-Matilda-Robert of Gloucester Civil War. 4:52 1154 ENGLISH POPE Adrian IV is an English Pope. 5:53 Criminal Law and Church Law. 6:24 1164 The Constitutions of Clarendon 7:24 A Shocking 1170. 7:52 Henry II's Family Revolts Against Him, known as The Great Revolt. 8:10 Henry II fights rebellion in France, then has to return to rebellion from King William the Lion in Scotland. 8:50 2 of Henry's 4 sons, Young Henry and Geoffrey, died in 1183 and 1186 respectively.
Ok the fact the kid got paid off by the king not as a way for him to stop the raid because it had already failed but out of pity. That is a lot of restraint for a young king who had just been attacked verry interesting. Then makes a dead to make his enemy king after his death which he probably thought would be many years off and could deal with it later no dought but ended up dying at 25 from a stomach illness just wow that's one for the movies. I am making my way through your videos I love them detailed but somehow short and sweet. I was playing some CK3 and was looking into the verry unheard of king I was playing and long and behold you had a video of him and now here I am lol.
Even though I am south American, I descend from Henry II, Genealogy is very interesting !!! And found a lot of queens and other kings, amongst my ancestors , Europe! Very nice video!
