Henry III (Penguin Monarchs) - A Simple and God-Fearing King

'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint' Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the throne aged just nine and reigned for fifty-six years, during which time his self-conscious piety often put him at odds with those around him. Yet as this sparkling account makes clear, he deserves to be better known: for the birth of Parliament, the building of Westminster Abbey, and the development of a kingdom that still recognizably exists today.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Church, Church Stephen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780241380437
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38043-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Monarchs; Penguin Monarchs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, Medieval History, Biography: royalty, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299