The loss of the White Ship off Barfleur in 1120 with Henry I's legitimate heir William Adeling created the succession crisis that would ultimately produce the Anarchy. The disaster changed the entire political and military context of the reign, forcing Henry to remarry and eventually to attempt to impose his daughter Matilda as successor. The security consequences for England were profound -- the destruction of the clear succession line opened a twenty-year period of potential dynastic instability that the barons would exploit.
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