1261 Father and son were soon reconciled, mostly because Henry, whatever his other faults, was a devoted family man. Relations […]
Tag: Eleanor
The king’s privations
1258 – 1259 At this point all eyes turned to Rome and Paris. The pope had threatened to excommunicate Henry […]
The new faith
1258 Henry’s years of misrule were seemingly at an end. The provisions adopted at Oxford were akin to an unwritten […]
Giving William a taste of his own medicine
1257 Simon was one of the commissioners appointed to deal with Alexander in Rome, but the mission, for reasons unknown, […]
All in the family
1254 Modern historians tend to side with Henry in this affair, suggesting he had every reason to believe Alfonso was […]
Eleanor’s parliament
1254 Before leaving, Henry appointed his wife Eleanor to rule in his stead with Richard serving as her adviser. Their […]
The third Eleanor
1254 It had been Henry’s intention to come to Gascony and show that it could be ruled with peace and […]
The king’s wrath
1239 True to character, Henry’s break with Simon was abrupt and unseemly. He waited for the occasion of the queen’s […]
Another royal wedding
1238 It was into this atmosphere of ill-will and hostility that Simon strode on another cold January day two years […]
The first Eleanor
1231 The youngest of John’s children, Eleanor (1215 – 1275) had all the beauty of her mother Isabella of Angoulême. […]
Courtly intrigue
1231 The Leicester holdings, it turned out, generated little income to cover the debts Simon had incurred to recover them. […]