Three weeks after the death of King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Henry I of England">Henry I of England</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England" id="mwMQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stephen, King of England">Stephen of Blois</a> claims the throne and is privately crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwMg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">King of England</a>, beginning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchy" id="mwMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Anarchy">English Anarchy</a>.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-5" id="mwNA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwNQ">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPetit-Dutaillis2013">Petit-Dutaillis, C. (5 November 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vXr5AQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA100" id="mwB20" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB24">The Feudal Monarchy in France and England</i></a>. Routledge. p.<span id="mwB28" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>100. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB3E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-136-20350-3" id="mwB3I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-136-20350-3"><bdi id="mwB3M">978-1-136-20350-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwB3Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Feudal+Monarchy+in+France+and+England&amp;rft.pages=100&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2013-11-05&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-136-20350-3&amp;rft.aulast=Petit-Dutaillis&amp;rft.aufirst=C.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvXr5AQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA100&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>