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1. 1. Henry Iii

   

   A detailed political and personal portrait of a long-reigning medieval monarch whose childhood succession and ingrained piety shaped a turbulent rule marked by ambitious cultural patronage, costly foreign schemes, and repeated confrontations with an increasingly restive nobility; Carpenter traces the king’s early reliance on regents, the fiscal and administrative stresses of his court, the baronial revolts culminating in the provisions and civil war led by Simon de Montfort, and the slow restoration of royal authority by the end of his life, while showing how personality, religion, and family dynastic concerns left a mixed legacy for his successor.

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