was Matilda  and she waltzed around town as the Empress Matilda for a few years. http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p112-King-henry-Whipped/ Henry 2nd other claim to fame is his establishing Canterbury as a a massive pilgrimage site after one of his tantrums resulted in the rather bloody murder  of Thomas Beckett  on December 29 1170 Tom