Henry II knew how to dinner party!

>Moreover, although the young king was famed for his generosity, he was ruinously extravagant, endlessly demanding money from his father, and always in debt and borrowing recklessly. Indeed Geoffrey of Vigé says bluntly that he was ‘not so much generous as prodigal’, and Robert of Torigny simply terms him ‘a spendthrift’. >Admittedly his extravagance had a certain regal panache. Once he invited every knight in Normandy named William to dinner, and more than a hundred came. ___________________________ **Source:** Seward, Desmond. “Eleanor’s Sons.” *Eleanor of Aquitaine*. New York: Times , 1979. 122. Print. ___________________________ **Further Reading:** [Robert of Torigni / Roburtus de Monte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_of_Torigni) [Henry II of England / Henry Court-manteau (Henry Curtmantle) / Henry FitzEmpress / Henry Plantagenet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England)