<Li> Kevin Rees as Jonathan 30 years old </Li> <Li> Brooke Dean as Maud - 6 years old </Li> <P> The miniseries took about a year to produce, at a cost of US $40 million . The project was funded by the German production company Tandem Communications, the Canadian film company Muse Entertainment Enterprises, and the UK and U.S. based Scott Free Productions . It was filmed in Austria and Hungary in 2009 . The final aerial shot is of modern - day Salisbury with a CGI cathedral combining elements of Salisbury Cathedral and Wells Cathedral, to represent the complete fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral, which were the two cathedrals which inspired Follett during the writing of the novel . The series was followed by an adaptation of the sequel World Without End in 2012 . </P> <P> Several ahistorical timelines of The Anarchy were modified or invented for the series, and in the view of one reviewer "great liberties are taken with the actual history". For example, the birth of Henry II and the death of his grandfather Henry I timelines are shortened in episode 1, given that young Henry was born in March 1133, and the older Henry died in December 1135 . Further, geographically, Henry II was living in Maine when Henry I fell ill in Normandy while hunting . Similarly in episode 4, both King Stephen and Robert of Gloucester are captured at the Battle of Lincoln . While it is accurate that Stephen was captured in Lincoln in early February 1141 (and later imprisoned in Bristol), Gloucester was not captured until more than seven months later in the Rout of Winchester in mid-September . </P>

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