 The chronicle contains a number of complaints that Nigel oppressed the monks or despoiled them.Following King Henry's death in 1135, the succession was disputed between the king's nephews—Stephen and his elder brother, Theobald II, Count of Champagne—and Henry's surviving legitimate child Matilda, usually known as the Empress Matilda because of her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V. King Henry's only legitimate son, William, had died in 1120.After Matilda was widowed in 1125, she returned to her father, who married her to Geoffrey, Count of Anjou.