Henry I

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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Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

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)

Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world