Henry of Huntingdon Kings are weak: this is the impression one gets from reading the twelfth century English historian Henry of Huntingdon, particularly in his astonishing summary of the troubled reign of King Stephen -- for which, Diana Greenway tells us, Henry's is "the only complete contemporary account"[footnoteRef:0]. Stephen's reign was a time of low-level civil war -- which would last for over a decade -- and ultimately would raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the English monarchy. The portion of his chronicle that presents Stephen's reign, Henry makes it clear that Stephen's own accession to the throne, the ongoing issue of his legitimacy while he ruled, and the bizarre circumstances which lead to Stephen's being forced to acknowledge his female cousin's son, Henry of Anjou, as his heir. But to Henry of Huntingdon, Stephen stands an emblem of the overall weakness of kings in this time period, and an examination of Henry's account of Stephen's reign will show us a monarchy that is in transition, and is much weaker than the popular cliche of kingship considers. By the fifth year of Stephen's reign, Henry of Huntingdon tells us, "the huge store of treasure had by now disappeared; there was no peace in the realm, but through murder, burning, and pillage everything was being destroyed, everywhere the sound...
Stephen offers for Henry a perfect example of a monarch's failures to maintain order and peace. [0: Henry of Huntingdon. The History of the English People 1000-1154. Translated with an introduction by Diana Greenway. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.) xxi.] [1: Ibid., 74-5.]
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