The Barons’ Hostage

by Geoffrey Trease

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A young hostage is caught between royal authority and the baronial reform movement led by Simon de Montfort. Captivity, divided loyalties and military crisis make constitutional conflict immediate and personal.

Trease places the struggle over government, taxation and representation within the lives of those dependent on noble households. The story introduces the Second Barons’ War without assuming that either crown or aristocracy speaks automatically for ordinary people.