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'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to
put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people.
But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint' Henry III,
the son of King John, was catapulted onto the throne aged just nine
and reigned for fifty-six years, during which time his
self-conscious piety often put him at odds with those around him.
Yet as this sparkling account makes clear, he deserves to be better
known: for the birth of Parliament, the building of Westminster
Abbey, and the development of a kingdom that still recognizably
exists today.
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