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The Song of Simon de Montfort - England's First Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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The Song of Simon de Montfort - England's First Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book
marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.' - Dan Jones,
author of The Plantagenets and The Templars It was around half-past
eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing heavy in the
sky, that Simon de Montfort decided to die. It was 4 August 1265
and he was about to face the royal army in the final battle of a
quarrel that had raged between them for years. Outnumbered,
outmanoeuvred and certain to lose, Simon chose to fight, knowing
that he could not possibly win the day. The Song of Simon de
Montfort is the story of this extraordinary man: heir to a great
warrior, devoted husband and father, fearless crusader knight and
charismatic leader. It is the story of a man whose passion for good
governance was so fierce that, in 1258, frustrated by the King's
refusal to take the advice of his nobles and the increasing
injustice meted out to his subjects, he marched on Henry III's hall
at Westminster and seized the reins of power. Montfort established
a council to rule in the King's name, overturning the social order
in a way that would not be seen again until the rule of Oliver
Cromwell in the seventeenth century. Having defeated the King at
the Battle of Lewes in 1264, Montfort and his revolutionary council
ruled England for some fifteen months, until the enmity between the
two sides exploded on that August day in 1265. When the fighting
was over, Montfort and a host of his followers had been cut down on
the battlefield, in an outpouring of noble blood that marked the
end of chivalry in England as it had existed since the Norman
Conquest. Drawing on an abundance of sources that allow us to trace
Montfort's actions and personality in a depth not possible for
earlier periods in medieval history, Sophie Therese Ambler tells
his story with a clarity that reveals all of the excitement, chaos
and human tragedy of England's first revolution.
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