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Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King.

'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'

Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the throne aged just nine and reigned for fifty-six years, during which time his self-conscious piety often put him at odds with those around him. Yet as this sparkling account makes clear, he deserves to be better known: for the birth of Parliament, the building of Westminster Abbey, and the development of a kingdom that still recognizably exists today.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 144
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-241-38043-7
  • EAN
  • 9780241380437
  • Release date
  • 2019