The Henry III Roundtable has wrapped up their three-part discussion on Simon de Montfort. In part 2, historians Darren Baker, John Marshall, Michael Ray and Huw Ridgeway picked up Simon’s career from his disastrous governorship of Gascony through the beginning of the reform period in 1258 up until his return to England five years later to make war on Henry III. In part 3, his victory at the battle of Lewes and two historic parliaments ensured his long-lasting fame, as much as his greed, unscrupulous ambition and murderous tyranny did to tarnish it, leaving his corpse chopped into pieces on the fields of Evesham. Go to the Roundtable.
Simon de Montfort
