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Historical person
1208–1265
Simon de Montfort was an Anglo-French nobleman who led the baronial opposition to Henry III of England. His victory at Lewes and the parliament associated with his rule made him a major figure in the development of English representative politics.
In Sharon Kay Penman’s Falls the Shadow, Simon de Montfort, a French-born nobleman, secures the earldom of Leicester and marries Eleanor, sister of Henry III. In David Field’s The Conscience of a King, after fighting in the Albigensian Crusade in France, Simon de Montfort – a landless nobleman – arrives at the court of Henry III, hoping to re-establish his family’s claim to the Earldom of Leicester. Other novels featuring Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester include David Field’s The Royal Hammer, David Pilling’s Longsword, Griff Hosker’s Lord Edward’s Archer, Paul Bannister’s Kingmaker, and Paul Bannister’s The Wolf’s Head.
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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 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 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 Crusader series follows the fictional Lancastrian knight Frederick Banastre and his descendants through the conflicts of the Angevin and early Plantagenet monarchy. Frederick enters the household of the future Richard I, campaigns in France and the Holy Land, and becomes involved in the political struggles caused by…
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