With All for All
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With All for All

The Life of Simon de Montfort

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With All for All

The Life of Simon de Montfort

About this book

Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort's combination of charisma, determination and fearlessness, reinforced by a wife with similar qualities, made him one of the greatest men of his age. This biography follows his life from his birth and upbringing in France until his defeat and death at the hands of the future Edward I. The pivotal year was 1264, when Montfort captured Henry III in battle, established a constitutional monarchy and, in the act he is most famous for, revolutionised the representation of Parliament, the future Commons. While calling him the founder of that institution begs too much, Montfort recognised and cultivated a new awakening in national identity and political awareness not seen since before the Norman Conquest two centuries earlier.Henry's long reign of fifty-six years saw many changes taking place in England and on the Continent, most strikingly the rise of humanism and power politics, and Montfort's entrΓ©e to the courts of Paris and Rome was instrumental in his rebellion against the king. Not for another four hundred years, until the advent of Oliver Cromwell, would England see a revolution led by a figure of comparable stature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Cast of Characters
  4. Timeline
  5. Genealogical Table and Maps
  6. Introduction: All the Thunder and Lightning in the World
  7. 1 - Steel and Wax, 1208–1231
  8. 2 - More of the Great Bounty, 1232–1238
  9. 3 - The Churching, 1239–1243
  10. 4 - On the Margins of Favour, 1244–1248
  11. 5 - The Trial, 1249–1253
  12. 6 - Shifting Alliances, 1254–1255
  13. 7 - Famine Before Revolution, 1256–1257
  14. 8 - 1258
  15. 9 - For and Against the Common Enterprise, 1259–1260
  16. 10 - Royalist Resurgence, 1261–1262
  17. 11 - The Return of the Alien, 1263
  18. 12 - Lewes and the Days of May, 1264/I
  19. 13 - The Rise of the Montfortian State, 1264/II
  20. 14 - Darkness at Evesham, 1265
  21. 15 - Aftermath, 1266–1337
  22. Picture Section
  23. Bibliography
  24. Notes and Commentary
  25. List of Illustrations