1257 Simon was one of the commissioners appointed to deal with Alexander in Rome, but the mission, for reasons unknown, […]
Tag: Isabella
Another boy king
1241 Like Henry, Louis IX (1214 – 1270) had been a boy king, crowned at the age of 12 after […]
Enter the Lusignans
1242 This time the conflict was instigated by Henry’s mother, Isabella d’Angoulême. She was just a teenager when King John […]