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 | Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th 
 
	
		|  Stephen 
 
 Stephen [Stephen] BrE NAmE
 (c.  1097–1154)  the king of England  from 1135 to 1154. He was the  ↑grandson  of  ↑William the Conqueror  and became king even though he had agreed that his cousin  ↑Matilda  had the right to the  ↑throne. He spent much of his period as king resisting her attempts to become queen, and finally agreed that her son  ↑Henry II  would become king when he died.
 
 
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