Qualla: Battle of Lincoln (1141) https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1141-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lincoln (1141) https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141 Battle of Lincoln (1141): Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141/ Photo credit Hchc2009, CC BY-SA 3.0. It is rare for a reigning King of England to be captured in battle. It has happened twice. The first time was here, beneath the walls of Lincoln Castle, on 2 February 1141 - and the man who would not yield until the last moment was King Stephen, fighting on foot with a battle-axe while the earls who were supposed to protect him spurred their horses away to safety. The chroniclers who watched him remembered the courage even as they cataloged the disaster. Stephen lost his army, lost his crown, lost his freedom, and lost the war - all in a single afternoon - and yet somehow managed to keep his dignity, which in twelfth-century England was almost as valuable.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1141-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1141-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lincoln (1141): The Anarchy https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. England in 1141 was six years into the civil war that historians now call the Anarchy. The trouble had started when King Henry I, who had a single surviving legitimate child - his daughter Matilda - died in 1135 and tried to leave the throne to her. The Anglo-Norman barons had sw...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1141-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1141-the-anarchy.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lincoln (1141): A Plan That Held https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Robert's army was a coalition. He had his own household troops. He had Ranulf of Chester's men - including Ranulf himself, who would lead from the centre in bright, conspicuous armour. He had a contingent of knights described in the chronicles as "the disinherited," men whom Step...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1141-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1141-the-king-fights-on.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lincoln (1141): The Prisoner of Bristol https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Stephen was bundled out of the city, taken westward, and lodged in the castle at Bristol - in chains, eventually, when his captors decided he had tried to negotiate too freely. Matilda, his cousin, was now effectively queen. She was crowned Lady of the English at Winchester in Ap...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1141-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1141-the-prisoner-of-bristol.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lincoln (1141): Walking the Ground Today https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1141/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The site of the battle is not precisely known. The chroniclers tell us the Angevin army crossed the Fossdyke - a Roman canal still running west out of the city - and the main fighting probably happened on the open ground west of Lincoln Castle, near where Robert of Gloucester's f...

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