Daily Archives for 19 December 2012


December 19: Henry II Crowned

On 19 December 1154, Henry II of England and his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine were crowned at Westminster Abby by Theobald, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry II was only twenty when he inherited the Kingdom after King Stephen died. His son, Henry the Younger, had a coronation on 14 June 1170, in an attempt to […]