Which monarch (1135-1141) preceded Henry II?
Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie the "Tractatus", stating that some terminology was borrowed solely to be fitted into the book discussing Contracts ("Tractatus", Book X), but that the terms were applied to English concepts. By 1135, the evolution of Anglo-Norman law was showing its age, with some parts working acceptably but many parts being cumbersome, ineffectual, and vulnerable to opposition by local lords. The time of Stephen's reign (1135–1141, 1141–1154) was a disaster, known in English history as "The Anarchy". Reform was needed and wanted, and Henry II (reigned 1154–1189) was equal to the challenge. Henry brought order out of legal chaos. He made the
Henry II, Duke of Austria Babenberg dynasty in Central Europe in that period. Henry had three children by Theodora Komnene: Henry II, Duke of Austria Henry II (; 1112 – 13 January 1177), called Jasomirgott, a member of the House of Babenberg, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1140 to 1141, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Austria from 1141 to 1156 (as "Henry XI"), and the first Duke of Austria from 1156 until his death. Henry was the second son of Margrave Leopold III of Austria, the first from his second marriage with Agnes of Waiblingen, a sister of the last Salian emperor