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Historical person
1207–1272
Henry III ruled England from 1216 to 1272, one of the longest reigns of the medieval English monarchy. His disputes with the barons, financial pressures and reliance on foreign favourites led to reform movements and the rebellion of Simon de Montfort.
Henry III of England also held the offices or ranks of duke, lord, monarch of England, and Lord of Ireland. Henry III of England belonged to the House of Plantagenet and operated within Kingdom of England. Henry III of England was born in Winchester Castle and died in Palace of Westminster.
Griff Hosker’s King in Waiting puts Henry III at the centre of the Second Barons’ War, beginning with his defeat and capture at Lewes and the struggle by his son Edward’s supporters to restore royal power. Sharon Kay Penman’s Falls the Shadow traces Henry’s deteriorating relationship with Simon de Montfort from kinship and royal favour to reform, rebellion and civil war. Richard Woodman’s Guardian of the Realm shows the vulnerable beginning of Henry’s kingship after King John’s death, when William Marshal must secure the throne for a nine-year-old monarch. Here Be Dragons places the young Henry in the continuing contest between the English crown and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth’s Wales. Hosker’s Broken Arrow looks back on veterans shaped by the wars of Henry’s reign as later Plantagenet conflicts reopen old loyalties.
Series
The trilogy follows native Welsh rulers and their families across the thirteenth century, from Llywelyn the Great and Joanna through Simon de Montfort’s baronial reform movement to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s final struggle against Edward I. It treats Welsh politics, marriage, kinship and resistance alongside English royal expansion.
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Lord Edward’s Archer follows Gerald Warbow from the Welsh Marches into the wars and political crises of Edward I and Edward II. The series combines archer warfare with the Second Barons’ War, Welsh resistance, crusading, the Scottish wars and court intrigue. It is a medieval military sequence about…
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The Roger of Huntley series follows a fugitive monk and crusader through the violence of the Third Crusade and the later crisis of King John’s reign. The early books place Roger among soldiers, pilgrims and rulers in the eastern Mediterranean, while the later novels return him to England…
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Ian Ross’s de Norton Trilogy follows the fictional Adam de Norton through the Second Barons’ War, from the crisis of 1264 to the last major resistance against Henry III in 1266. Battle Song takes the young squire from the tournament circuit into the Battle of Lewes; War Cry…
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The Medieval Saga follows interlinked fictional families through two centuries of English dynastic conflict, beginning with the invasions of 1066 and ending with Simon de Montfort’s challenge to Henry III. The sequence places ordinary soldiers, household officers and landed families beside the rulers whose wars repeatedly reshape their…
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The Longsword series follows Hugh Longsword and the surviving Montfortian rebels after the Second Barons' War. Moving from outlaw resistance in England to Edward's crusade, political conspiracy and the conquest of Wales, the novels trace the violent consolidation of royal power under Henry III and Edward I.
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The William Falconer mysteries follow a Regent Master at the early University of Oxford between 1261 and 1275. Falconer approaches murder through observation, logic and experiment at a time when natural philosophy, Aristotelian teaching and church authority are contested. His cases involve students, clerics, royal officials, theatrical companies,…
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The Wars of the Roses Saga begins well before the fifteenth-century conflict, tracing the Plantagenet inheritance from the defeat of Simon de Montfort in 1265. The fictional Bywater family serves successive kings and discovers that royal patronage can restore an estate in one reign and destroy it in…
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The William Marshal trilogy fictionalises the life of the celebrated knight and regent from his childhood during the Anarchy to his final defence of the young Henry III. It follows Marshal through tournaments, service to Henry II and Richard I, the Third Crusade, King John’s loss of Normandy…
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The Plantagenet Saga spans the dynasty from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard III. Across fourteen novels, family rebellion, disputed succession, royal marriage and war connect the Angevin Empire, the conquest of Wales, conflict with Scotland, the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses.
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Carol McGrath’s Rose Trilogy reimagines the lives of three medieval queens of England through the women around them, pairing royal politics with intimate viewpoints from beyond the throne. The Silken Rose follows Eleanor of Provence and the commoner Rosalind in Henry III’s troubled court; The Damask Rose turns…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
