Henry ac Stephen's successor. The movements of young Henry were viewed with suspicion by Stephen, who attempted to get the bishops to recognize his own son Eustace as his successor; but they, headed by knowledged as Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, refused to do this, and soon afterwards Eustace died. In 1153 Henry invaded England and renewed the war; but, after his son's death, Stephen had little heart for the contest, and it was not hard to bring about an arrangement at Wallingford, by which Henry was recognized as the heir to the throne. The last year of Stephen's reign was occupied by an attempt to put a stop to some of the disorder which was going on in the kingdom, and in the midst of it Stephen died, in 1154, after an anarchy, rather than reign, which had lasted nineteen years. Investiture dispute settled Roger of Salisbury begins to organize the Curia Regis |