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Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

by Edmund King

Book 34 in the Penguin Monarchs series.

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Edmund King examines Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, as the ruler who consolidated Anglo-Norman England. The biography follows his seizure of the crown, defeat of his brother Robert, development of royal administration and careful management of barons and the Church.

The White Ship disaster killed Henry’s only legitimate son and turned succession into the defining problem of his later reign. King shows how the monarch’s attempt to secure the inheritance for his daughter Matilda prepared the conflict that followed his death.