The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

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years later, Rufus was hit square in the chest by an arrow which seemed to have bounced off the flank of a deer. While rigor mortis began to set in, Henry rode as fast as he could for Winchester, where he took control of the royal treasury. In 2023, he began presenting the podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives with Richard Coles and Cat Jarman, in which each of them is given an obscure topic and then they discuss their findings. Shani Louk's brother reveals 'our whole family crashed' when they saw her being paraded by Hamas 'spitting.

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The cry went up to try to overtake the king’s vessel, and the oarsmen bent their backs in an attempt to please the prince and his baying entourage. Rishi Sunak and US Vice President Kamala Harris meet and agree on Israel's right to defend itself - and vow. Elite New York model agency DROPS fashion model and interior designer Camilla Deterre after she posted.

The war is often times referred to as The Anarchy because of the violence and horror that plagued the land for such a long period of time. On 31 August 1997, his older sister Diana died after a car crash in Paris and Spencer delivered the eulogy at her funeral service held at Westminster Abbey six days later. Now that there was no clear male heir, Henry had to look to his legitimate daughter, who was also named Matilda. He was on hand when his elder brother, William Rufus, died unexpectedly in a hunting accident in the New Forest in 1100.

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Since then, history has spiralled down from a guaranteed part of each student’s curriculum, to a minor discipline that is quickly optional. He guides the reader well through the dramatic twists and turns of these years, which first placed Henry on the throne, then seemed set to deny the succession to his progeny. Particularly dangerous opponents proved to be Count Fulk V of Anjou and King Louis VI (‘the Fat’) of France, neither of whom had anything to gain from a newly ascendant Norman duchy to the north. His daughter Matilda is the one who escaped by scailing down Oxford castle one freezing wintery snowy evening and making her escape to Wallingford and whose son eventually became the first Plantagenet King, Henry II. I’ve never been particular interested in the British monarchy until around Henry II but this changed my mind.Sometimes, however, the course of history is determined by singular events, small in their nature, but explosive in their consequences. No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster,” the chronicler William of Malmesbury wrote of the wrecking of the White Ship, which crashed upon the Quillebeuf rock barely a mile off the Normandy coast on November 25, 1120. I did not realize that Charles Spencer was a historian until quite recently but as this book, and presumably his others prove, he is a very capable and readable one. In his eulogy he rebuked both Britain's royal family and the press for their treatment of his sister. Once journalists get their hands on them,those curt, day-to-day messages can be just a tad embarrassing — as this week’s expletive-laden evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry confirms.

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Although he remarried two months later, his young bride, Adeliza of Louvain, bore him no children at all. If you are entertained by the darker side of life and are criticized for having a sick sense of humor then British history will certainly be your cup of tea. Here is the story, marvellously told, of the post-Conquest kings – and one almost-queen – of England: unpredictable, violently dramatic, and never less than compelling. While William the Conqueror had become Duke of Normandy when known to be illegitimate, this was not to happen again. He reported that the section was at least 4m long, though more was thought to be concealed by a boulder.Henry I had quickly brought the overmighty aristocrats of England to heel, and had established financial discipline by founding the Exchequer, still in existence today. The following June, the young prince did homage to Louis for Normandy on Henry’s behalf, a symbolic act of peacemaking that served to smooth ruffled feathers at the French court. Beauty queen Athenna Crosby claims she was spotted having lunch with 'close friend' Matthew Perry a day. Historian Earl Spencer (left) last week joined experts as they dived on the wreck site of the White Ship, which sank in 1120, killing King Henry I's only heir.

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Everything we learn is important in one way or another, from helping us understand the general spirit reigning over England during the 11th and 12th centuries to clarifying the decisions and ambitions of various key figures. But looking to make up time, and quite possibly inebriated, the captain and crew made a terrible mistake, crashing the boat into the submerged rock known as Quillebœuf just outside the harbour of Barfleur. Following what could be considered the final battle of Henry's reign that would give him and England a lasting peace tragedy struck on the White Ship.

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