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May 13, 2024 · The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the ‘uncrowned King of England’.
May 13, 2024 · May 13, 2024. The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons’ War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the “uncrowned King of England”.
May 15, 2024 · 15 May 2024. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. At the Battle of Evesham (4 August 1265) the army of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, was annihilated and his body dismembered, his head, testicles, a hand and a foot taken as ‘dark trophies’ by his enemies.
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4 days ago · In May 1248, Henry III appointed his brother-in-law, the earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort, lieutenant for a period of seven years. While Montfort was able to re-establish order, his strong-arm tactics alarmed the king, who received a stream of reports from disaffected Gascons, not least the queen’s cousin, Gaston de Béarn.
4 days ago · It was built by that all-powerful noble, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, in 1245; but in the thirtieth year of Henry III. it was granted by the king to Peter of Savoy (from whom it took its name), uncle of his queen, Eleanor of Provence, according to Pennant, "on condition of yielding yearly at the Exchequer three barbed arrows for all ...
Apr 30, 2024 · While the castle had been around a while, it was King John who gave Kenilworth the fortifications and the shape we see today during a massive rebuilding program in 1210-1216. Then, Henry III granted Kenilworth to Simon de Montfort, the Earl of Leicester, in 1244.
6 days ago · In 1279 the tenants of the Earl of Leicester's fee in Thurnby were the Segrave family, who had originally been enfeoffed in 1239 by Simon de Montfort, shortly after he was created Earl of Leicester. Stephen de Segrave then exchanged with de Montfort all his land in Thornton and Bagworth for the land in Thurnby which Richard, son of Robert de ...
