The first Plantagenet king of England, Henry II, is important to contemporary small business owners because he founded the legal system that paved the way for modern entrepreneurship.
Ambitious and intelligent, Henry’s consolidation of the 12th century British Isles under his rule created the need for order. While his reforms were more for his political expediency than to empower the people, they actually gave birth to the English Common Law, which replaced feudal practices such as trial by ordeal.
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