Henry of Blois unsuccessful. However, on 1 March 1139, during the reign of his brother Stephen, Henry obtained a commission as papal legate, which gave him higher rank than Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, making him the most powerful figure in the English Church during the troubled times of the so-called "Anarchy". Thus, when his brother was unavailable, Henry of Blois was the most powerful, and possibly the wealthiest, man in England. Stephen of Blois was crowned King of England in 1135, but the relations between the two brothers were not always peaceful. After the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, Henry found
Succession to the Spanish throne Succession to the Spanish throne Spain uses the system of male-preference cognatic primogeniture. Dynasts who marry against the express prohibition of the monarch and the "Cortes" are excluded from the succession together with their descendants. A prohibition expressed only by the monarch or only by the "Cortes" will have no consequences to the succession. Disputes about the succession are to be settled by legislation. Upon his succeeding to the throne, the monarch is required by article 61(1) of the 1978 constitution to take an oath on the occasion of his being proclaimed before the Cortes Generales. The above list is