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On the death of Henry I of England, his nephew Stephen, a grandson of William the Conqueror, seizes the English throne, though he has earlier recognized the claim of Henry's daughter, Empress Matilda, now the wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. A civil war breaks out between forces loyal to Stephen or Matilda.
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