Henry I

Catherine Hanley tells the story of Empress Matilda, whose battle for the English throne became known as ‘the anarchy’. (Photo by Jeni Nott for BBC History Magazine)

Medieval warrior queen

King Henry I "always seemed to have money at his disposal," says Judith Green, and was very good at spending it. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

How King Henry I made and blew a fortune

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Matilda tried to become queen of England, "not in the conventional sense of a king's wife, but in the unprecedented form of a female king," says Helen Castor. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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