Following the death of Edward the Confessor, there were several claimants to the English throne. Harold Godwinson was from Wessex, in England. He was a wealthy nobleman, and it is claimed that ...

Henry began to build plans for the future of the English throne over the coming years. In 1127, he married Matilda to Fulk’s son (Fulk was King of Jerusalem), a man called Geoffrey Plantagenet.