During this monarch's reign, Ranulf de Glanvill wrote the Tractatus de Legibus, and Richard FitzNeal wrote Dialogue of the Exchequer about royal finance.
During this monarch's reign, Ranulf de Glanvill wrote the Tractatus de Legibus, and Richard FitzNeal wrote Dialogue of the Exchequer about royal finance. This monarch reconciled with the papacy in the Compromise of Avranches, eight years after issuing sixteen articles that curbed ecclesiastical power. This man became king after the Treaty of Wallingford, which was signed by Empress Matilda, his mother. This monarch, who issued the Constitutions of Clarendon, was the first king of the Plantagenet [plan-TAJ-uh-nit] line. For 10 points, name this 12th century English king who married Eleanor of Aquitaine and ordered the death of Thomas a Becket.
During this monarch's reign, Ranulf de Glanvill wrote the Tractatus de Legibus, and Richard FitzNeal wrote Dialogue of the Exchequer about royal finance.
Henry II [or Henry Curtmantle; prompt on "Henry"]