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Famous today for three things:
 
1.# Founded the concept of the Common Law, a legal system where the law is usually determined by court decisions, and the foundation for the legal systems of the UK, the United States and Commonwealth countries such as Canada.
2.# After a dispute over who should be the High King of Ireland, he took advantage of a Papal Edict of 1158 ― issued by the only English Pope, Adrian IV (born Nicholas Breakspeare ([[Meaningful Name|No, really]])) ― that gave overlordship of Ireland to the King of England to establish an English zone of control (The Pale) around Dublin, which had [[The Irish Question|repercussions for]] [[The Troubles|centuries to come]].▼
 
3.# The most (in)famous thing was that he got into a savage argument with the original [[Turbulent Priest]], his one time friend Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, over whether the Church was subordinate to secular authority. His expression of frustration was construed to be a Royal Command: a [[Rhetorical Request Blunder]]. Four knights made haste to Canterbury and brutally murdered Becket. The murder of an archbishop at the altar of his own cathedral on orders from the King was considered the worst crime in Christendom for a long time, and [[Historical Villain Upgrade|clouded Henry's reputation in history]]. It was something Henry [[My Greatest Failure|appeared to truly show regret and remorse for]] and he was publicly whipped as penance by the canons of Canterbury Cathedral. (Becket, on the other hand, got made into a saint and had a great film made about him in which he was played by [[Richard Burton]]). ▼
▲2. After a dispute over who should be the High King of Ireland, he took advantage of a Papal Edict of 1158 ― issued by the only English Pope, Adrian IV (born Nicholas Breakspeare ([[Meaningful Name|No, really]])) ― that gave overlordship of Ireland to the King of England to establish an English zone of control (The Pale) around Dublin, which had [[The Irish Question|repercussions for]] [[The Troubles|centuries to come]].
 
▲3. The most (in)famous thing was that he got into a savage argument with the original [[Turbulent Priest]], his one time friend Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, over whether the Church was subordinate to secular authority. His expression of frustration was construed to be a Royal Command: a [[Rhetorical Request Blunder]]. Four knights made haste to Canterbury and brutally murdered Becket. The murder of an archbishop at the altar of his own cathedral on orders from the King was considered the worst crime in Christendom for a long time, and [[Historical Villain Upgrade|clouded Henry's reputation in history]]. It was something Henry [[My Greatest Failure|appeared to truly show regret and remorse for]] and he was publicly whipped as penance by the canons of Canterbury Cathedral. (Becket, on the other hand, got made into a saint and had a great film made about him in which he was played by [[Richard Burton]]).
 
Had many mistresses (notably Rosamund Clifford and Princess Alice of France), and therefore illegitimate children, but also had five legitimate adult sons. William died when only two years old, Henry the Young King died from dysentery, and Geoffrey of Brittany was trampled by a horse. When his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine had had enough of his infidelity, she [[Evil Matriarch|manipulated her surviving sons into rebellion against him]], which was successful.
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