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4 days ago · Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War.
- 28 October 1216 – 16 November 1272
- Isabella of Angoulême
1 day ago · 1. The Reign of Henry III, 1216-1272. King Henry III ruled for fifty-six years between 16 October 1216 and 16 November 1272. His is the third longest reign in English history. During this period the social and political landscape of England was changed irrevocably.
A fine in the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272) was an agreement to pay the king a sum of money for a specified concession. The rolls on which the fines were recorded provide the earliest systematic evidence of what people and institutions across society wanted from the king and he was prepared to give.
1 day ago · Henry II (1154–1189) is considered by some to be the first Plantagenet king of England, and the first Angevin. In the 15th century, near the end of the dynastic line, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, adopted Plantagenet as his family name.
- 12th century
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
1 day ago · Henry I had required the leading barons, ecclesiastics and officials in Normandy and England, to take an oath to accept Matilda (also known as Empress Maud, Henry I's daughter) as his heir. England was far less than enthusiastic to accept an outsider, and a woman, as their ruler.
3 days ago · Historians have often treated the testimony of Paris with caution and indeed sometimes with contempt, but here, and hence this Fine of the Month, the evidence of the fine rolls shows that the countess did indeed abuse Henry in a personal interview.
3 days ago · The fine rolls can be searched using the following indexes. The indexes are those for the rolls for the first to the thirty-second year of King Henry's reign, that is from 28 October 1216 to 27 October 1248.
