Henry III vs. Simon de Montfort
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Second Barons War
Henry's rule is so dominated by such huge characters that he almost drinks into the background of it because of his own nature and his own character. But actually if you look at it in detail, which I've done for that period, you can see him making some of the same mistakes all over again. Almost one a day, in some years after 1267, there's all 200 gifts during the whole course of the year of either deer or wood from Royal Forest. When Edgwood comes back to England, they go down from a couple of hundreds to 20. So he still tries to be as profligate. He'd never been a very energetic king. He'd loved the comfortable
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