Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ‘Adam of Bristol’ and Tales of Ritual Crucifixion in Medieval England
- Ethics and Office in England in the Thirteenth Century
- Some Aspects of the Royal Itinerary in the Twelfth Century
- The minority governments of Henry III, Henry (VII) and Louis IX compared
- Scottish Queenship in the Thirteenth Century
- Ethnicity, personal names, and the nature of Scottish Europeanization
- Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia c.1180–c.1280
- A Forgotten War: England and Navarre, 1243·4
- The Appointment of Cardinal-deacon Otto as Legate in Britain (1237)
- Matthew Paris and John Mansel
- The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire
- Dynastic Conflict in thirteenth-century Laxton
- Absenteeism: The Chronology of a Concept
The minority governments of Henry III, Henry (VII) and Louis IX compared
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ‘Adam of Bristol’ and Tales of Ritual Crucifixion in Medieval England
- Ethics and Office in England in the Thirteenth Century
- Some Aspects of the Royal Itinerary in the Twelfth Century
- The minority governments of Henry III, Henry (VII) and Louis IX compared
- Scottish Queenship in the Thirteenth Century
- Ethnicity, personal names, and the nature of Scottish Europeanization
- Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia c.1180–c.1280
- A Forgotten War: England and Navarre, 1243·4
- The Appointment of Cardinal-deacon Otto as Legate in Britain (1237)
- Matthew Paris and John Mansel
- The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire
- Dynastic Conflict in thirteenth-century Laxton
- Absenteeism: The Chronology of a Concept
Summary
Sunday 27 July 1214 was a hot day. And it was a decisive day in European history. It was the day of the battle of Bouvines which the French king Philip Augustus won against the superior combined German-English forces of Emperor Otto IV and William of Salisbury, King John's half brother. The battlefield of Bouvines brought together kings, nobles and knights from three different societies or kingdoms – nations, if the word can be used in a thirteenth-century context – whose structures, customs, laws and history varied, but who were to suffer a very similar fate not too long after this battle: all three kingdoms were to be ruled by a minor.
King John of England would die on the night of 27 to 28 October 1216 and leave his realm and his problems, resulting largely from the outcome of the battle of Bouvines, to his barely nine-year-old son Henry III. He must have been very worried about the future of his dynasty, since he took a number of measures shortly before his death to secure Henry's succession. His Capetian rival over the Angevin possessions on the continent, King Louis VIII of France, on the other hand, left twelve-year-old Louis IX – Saint Louis as he was to be called from 1297 on – a relatively well-ordered realm. He did not seem to be too worried about his son's succession, since he would not have him crowned before his own death.
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- Thirteenth Century England XIProceedings of the Gregynog Conference, 2005, pp. 46 - 60Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007