such deeds, and they said openly that Christ and His saints slept. Such, and more than we can say, we endured nineteen winters for our sins.” A people who had suffered these things must certainly have sighed for a strong government, by whatever hand it should be wielded; and miserable though the reign had been, it tended towards the consolidation of nationality. HENRY II. 1154-1189. Born 1133 = Eleanor. | | +-------+-------+--+------------------+-----+------------------+ | | | | | | Henry. | Geoffrey = Constance John Matilda = Henry | d.1182. | | of Brittany. the Lion | Richard. | of Saxony. | Arthur. | | +------------------------------------+ | +-----------+-----------+ | | Eleanor = Alphonso IX. Joanna = William II., King of Sicily. CONTEMPORARY PRINCES. _Scotland._ | _France._ | _Germany._ | _Spain._ | | | Malcolm IV., | Louis VII., 1137. | Frederic I., | Alphonso VIII., 1134. 1153. | Philip Augustus, | 1152. | Sancho III., 1157. William, 1165. | 1180. | | Alphonso IX., 1158. POPES.--Adrian IV., 1154. Alexander III., 1159. Lucius III., 1181. Urban III., 1185. Gregory VIII., 1187. Clement III., 1187. _Archbishops._ | _Chief-Justices._ | _Chancellors._ | | Theobald, 1139-1161. | Robert, Earl of | Thomas à Becket, Thomas à Becket, | Leicester, 1154-1167. | 1154-1162. 1162-1170. | Richard de Lucy, | Ralph de Warneville, Richard, 1174-1184. | 1154-1179. | 1173-1181. Baldwin, 1185-1190. | Ranulf Glanville, | Geoffrey, the King’s | 1180-1189. | son, 1181-1189. [Sidenote: Main objects of Henry’s reign.] [Sidenote: First acts of his reign.]