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The First English Revolution - Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War (Hardcover, New)
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The First English Revolution - Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War (Hardcover, New)
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Simon de Montfort, the leader of the English barons, was the first
leader of a political movement to seize power from a reigning
monarch. The charismatic de Montfort and his forces had captured
most of south-eastern England by 1263 and at the battle of Lewes in
1264 King Henry III was defeated and taken prisoner. De Montfort
became de facto ruler of England and the short period which
followed was the closest England was to come to complete abolition
of the monarchy until Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. The
Parliament of 1265 - known as De Montfort's Parliament - was the
first English parliament to have elected representatives. Only
fifteen months later de Montfort's gains were reversed when Prince
Edward escaped captivity and defeated the rebels at the Battle of
Evesham. Simon de Montfort was killed. Following this victory
savage retribution was exacted on the rebels and authority was
restored to Henry III. Adrian Jobson captures the intensity of de
Montfort's radical crusade through these most revolutionary years
in English history in this spirited and dramatic narrative.
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