Frisking the Bishops
Ferdinand Mount: Poor Henry, 21 September 2023
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement 1258-72
by David Carpenter.
Yale, 711 pp., £30, May,978 0 300 24805 0 Show More
by David Carpenter.
Yale, 711 pp., £30, May,
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule 1207-58
by David Carpenter.
Yale, 763 pp., £30, October 2021,978 0 300 25919 3 Show More
by David Carpenter.
Yale, 763 pp., £30, October 2021,
“... and utter strangers in the counties’. The grasping sheriff of Nottingham in the 14th-century Robin Hood legend was not a purely fictional creation. In Articles 50 and 51 of Magna Carta, the barons promise to remove from the kingdom Philip Marc, the sheriff of Nottingham, and his kinsmen, along with all other alien knights ‘who have come with horses and ... ”