In all this discussion of "kings with brothers", I obviously meant only kings with LIVING YOUNGER BROTHERS. It goes without saying that they would not have become kings in the first place, if they had older brothers.
That being said, the order of primogeniture had not yet been firmly established in England, as of the 12th century. Indeed, I believe that King Henry I actually had an OLDER brother at the time of his accession. But his line eventually became extinct.
And the English royal succession eventually passed through the line of his daughter, whose son became the famous King Henry II of the first house of Plantagenet, married to the equally famous Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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