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The sinking of the White Ship, in an English chronicle of about 1321.Image: UnknownUnknown , produced for the Corporation of the City of London · Public domainworld · Europe
The White Ship sinks, and with it England’s heir
On the evening of 25 November 1120 the White Ship, a new vessel carrying about 300 people, left Barfleur in Normandy for England. On board was William Adelin, the 17-year-old only legitimate son of King Henry I, with many young nobles. Soon after setting out in the dark the ship struck a rock and sank; only one man is said to have survived. Henry was left without a male heir. He named his daughter Matilda to succeed him, but on his death in 1135 his nephew Stephen seized the throne, and nearly twenty years of civil war, known as the Anarchy, followed.
Source: British Library: 900 years since the White Ship disaster ↗
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