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Victory for the common enterprise

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14 May 1264 For all the savagery of the civil war, the strategy was about chipping away at the enemy’s […]

Henry III

by David Carpenter

Eleanor of Provence

by Darren Baker

Simon de Montfort

by John Maddicott

Eleanor de Montfort

by Sarah Ursell

Introducing the Montfort boys

Henry de Montfort

The stuff of legends

Simon de Montfort the younger

A hard name to live up to

Amaury de Montfort

A man for all seasons

Guy de Montfort

The river of boiling blood

The birth of the paliamentary state

The Battle of Lewes

Dysfunctional family

Songs of the noble Simon

Armchair history

The case against a King Simon

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