William's son Henry marries Matilda, the daughter of the earl of Anjou, in June, and does homage to the king of France for Normandy.

Pope Calixtus endeavours to prevail on Henry to set at liberty his brother Robert, as a pilgrim and soldier of the Holy Sepulchre, but without effect.

A.D. 1120. David is appointed bishop of Bangor by Griffin, prince of North Wales, after the see had been vacant eleven years, and is consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury, April 4.

Peace is made with the king of France, and Henry returns to England.

William, his son, and two of the king's illegitimate children, with many young nobles, perish by shipwreck, Nov. 25.

A.D. 1121. Henry marries Adelais of Louvain, Feb. 2.

Henry marches against the Welsh; "and after the king's will they agreed with him.”

Cross of the Hospitallers.

The hospitallers of Jerusalem become a military body, called the knights of St. John; their standard is " gules, a cross argent," their badge a white cross of peculiar form.

A.D. 1123. Robert Bloet, bishop of Lincoln, dies, while

hunting with the king, Jan. 9.

The earl of Anjou demands the dower of his daughter, the widow of William, which the king refuses.

The earl of Anjou, angry at Henry's detaining the dower of his daughter, gave her younger sister in marriage to William, the son of

Several barons in Normandy take arms in favour of William, the son of Robert. The king passes over in June, and strengthens many castles.

A.D. 1124. Henry remains in Normandy, contending with the king of France and the earl of Anjou, "but most of all with his own men."

Alexander of Scotland dies, April 27, and is succeeded by his brother David, who is also earl of Huntingdon in England.

'Full heavy year was this: the man that had property was bereaved of it by violence, the man that had not was starved"."

A.D. 1125. Severe punishment inflicted on the moneyers for issuing base coin, so that a man that had a pound could not lay out a penny at a market a." Henry the emperor (husband of Maud) dies, May 22. A council held at London, in which the marriage of priests is condemned.

A.D. 1126. Henry returns to England in September, bringing with him his new queen and his daughter Maud, and many Norman prisoners, "whom he ordered to be kept in strong bonds."

David, king of Scotland, visits the king, and remain with him for some time.

Robert of Normandy, and supported him with all his power for a while; at length he deserted him, when William divorced his wife, and married the sister of the queen of France, which procured him the aid of Louis.

He obtained the earldom by marriage with Maud, widow of Simon de St. Liz, and daughter of Waltheof.

Statements in substance the same occur in almost every year of this and the following reign.

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They were summoned to Winchester at Christmas, and there mutilated.

Robert of Normandy is given into the custody of Robert of Gloucester, the king's natural son, and confined at Bristol.

Henry obliges his nobles to swear to receive his daughter Maud as their future queen, Dec. 25.

Thurstan of York contends for the primacy in the king's presence, at Christmas.

A.D. 1127. Maud is betrothed to Geoffrey, the son of the earl of Anjou, who thereupon deserts the cause of William of Normandy.

William of Normandy is put in possession of Flanders by the king of France.

Maud and Geoffrey of Anjou are married, in the spring.

A.D. 1128. Henry goes to Normandy, being at war with his nephew, the count of Flanders.

The count of Flanders is wounded in battle, and dies, July 27.

Ralph, bishop of Durham, dies, Sept. 5.

Hugh of the Temple visits Normandy and England, and collects many men and much money for the relief of the Holy Lando.

A.D. 1129. Henry releases some of the Norman prisoners; he takes earl Waleran into favour, “and they became as good friends as they were foes before." Maud is driven from Anjou by her husband, July.

Her uncle, the king of Scotland, first took the oath, then Stephen (afterwards king), and next Robert, earl of Gloucester, her natural brother and most faithful friend.

The Saxon Chronicler probably exaggerates the matter, when he says, "There went with him and after him more people than ever did before, since that the first expedition was in the days of pope Urban."

A council is held at London against married priests. Henry of Blois, the king's nephew, is appointed bishop of Winchester Oct. 11, and consecrated Nov. 17. A great earthquake in England, Dec. 6.

A.D. 1130. Henry passes over to Normandy.

A.D. 1131. Henry returns to England, bringing with him his daughter Maud, to whom fealty is again sworn at Northampton in September.

A.D. 1132. Maud returns to her husband in the spring.

The see of Carlisle is founded, April 11. A'dulf, the first bishop, is consecrated in August, 1133.

A.D. 1133. Henry goes to Normandy, and remains there until his death.

A.D. 1135. Robert, earl of Normandy, dies in confinement, Feb. 10.

Geoffrey of Anjou quarrels with Henry, and seizes on several castles in Normandy.

Henry dies at Rouen, in the night of December 1.

STEPHEN, the third son of the count of Blois of the same name, and of Adela, daughter of William I., was born probably about 1096. He was brought up at the court of his uncle Henry I., received many benefits from him, and professed himself a warm supporter of the succession of his cousin the empress Maud. Yet he supplanted her, as Henry had done his brother, and, in the words of the Saxon Chronicle, "in his time all was dissension, and evil, and rapine." He maintained his acquisition for a while by force of arms, but on the death of his son Eustace, he came to a compromise, in virtue of which he passed the last year of his reign in comparative peace, and died Oct. 25, 1154.

Stephen married Matilda, daughter of the count of Boulogne, (and, equally with Maud, a niece of David of Scotland,) who energetically supported him in his strug

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Stephen is usually styled an usurper, which is true, but the same reproach applies to the whole Norman line, not one of them being the direct representative of his predecessor.