Henry III of England
Henry III (1207 - 1272) was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years from 1216 to his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready. England prospered during his reign and his greatest monument is Westminster, which he made the seat of his government and where he expanded the abbey as a shrine to Edward the Confessor.
He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal, but the England he inherited had undergone several drastic changes in the reign of his father. He spent much of his reign fighting the barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced to call the first "parliament" in 1264. He was also unsuccessful on the Continent, where he endeavoured to re-establish English control over Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine.…more
He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal, but the England he inherited had undergone several drastic changes in the reign of his father. He spent much of his reign fighting the barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced to call the first "parliament" in 1264. He was also unsuccessful on the Continent, where he endeavoured to re-establish English control over Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine.…more
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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2012
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Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
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1988
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King John
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1981
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
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2008
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The Brothers of Gwynedd (Brothers of Gwynedd #1-4)
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1989
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
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1949
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The Queen from Provence (Plantagenet Saga, #6)
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1979
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The Royal Griffin (The Plantagenets #2)
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1978
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Montfort: The Early Years - 1229 to 1243 (Monfort, #1)
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2010
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Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258
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2020
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