The Second Baron's War

by Sadler, John

• ISBN13: 9781844158317
• ISBN10: 1844158314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-19
• Publisher: Pen & Sword

Summary

Lucid Study of The Struggle Between King and Nobility in Thirteenth-Century England

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Maps	p. xiii
Timeline	p. xv
Dramatis Personae	p. xix
Background: Of Arms and Men	p. 1
Strategy and tactics	p. 2
The army	p. 7
Arms and armour	p. 11
Siege warfare	p. 16
The face of battle	p. 23
The Reign of Henry III	p. 27
The nature of Kingship	p. 27
The First Barons' War (1215-1217) and the early years of Henry III	p. 29
Simon de Montfort, sixth Earl of Leicester	p. 34
The Leopard	p. 36
The Provisions of Oxford and the slide into war, 1258-1264	p. 37
Lewes (1) - The Campaign	p. 41
Beginning the campaign: royalist moves	p. 42
Rochester beseiged	p. 45
Lewes: the opening moves	p. 47
Advance to contact	p. 52
Lewes (2) - The Battle	p. 55
Deployments	p. 57
Prince Edward's charge	p. 60
Trial by battle	p. 64
The 'Mise' of Lewes	p. 68
Evesham (1) - The Campaign	p. 71
The constitution	p. 72
De Montfort's regime	p. 78
The campaign of Evesham	p. 81
Kenilworth	p. 88
Evesham (2) - The Battle	p. 93
Advance to contact	p. 93
The armies deployed	p. 100
Battle joined	p. 105
Aftermath	p. 109
Legacy	p. 113
The royalist triumph	p. 113
The siege of Kenilworth	p. 116
The end of the war	p. 118
Evesham: An Alternative View	p. 121
The Battlefield Trail	p. 127
Wargaming the Battles of Lewes and Evesham	p. 133
Glossary	p. 135
Notes	p. 139
Select Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 153
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