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Stephen 1135 Stephen was Son to Stephen Earl of Blois and Adela Daughter to William the Conqueor. Though Henry the 1st had named Henry his Grand Son to be his successor, and had caused the nobility to take the oath in his favor, yet the clergy and the Barons elected Stephen his Nephew thinking that a King who owed all to them would easily grant their demands--Stephen acknowledged the Crown as a gift, and not as his right; he abolished the forest lands and confirmed the claims and privileges of the Clergy--However Matilda assumed
