When matilda of anjou is dallying waiting to be acknowledged as queen in anjou, stephen hotfoots it from normandy and gets self crowned king. The english nobility generally seem to support him until there is a sort of collective intake of breath among certain of them. But he is the winner in this, because he effectively takes control, certainly, of eastern england, down to the tine. And witha slowly fading out level of influence down towards the s and on the west,. He occupies that wonderful city of carlisle, completes the castle, and continues to expand south through the lakes, ultimately into not lancashire.

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