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(Edward) the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
HENRY III OF ENGLAND [of Winchester], King of England, son and h eir, was born at Winchester Castle on 1 Oct. 1207. He was crowne d, aged nine, at Gloucester on 28 Oct. 1216. Henry assumed perso nal rule when he declared himself to be of full age in January 1 227, and sought to recover the lands in France lost by his fathe r. He was married at Canterbury on 14 Jan. 1236 to ELEONORE DE P ROVENCE, second daughter and co-heiress of Raymond Berengar V, C omte de Provence (descendant of Charlemagne), by Beatrix, daught er of Thomas I, Comte de Savoie (descendant of Charlemagne) . Sh e was born at Aix-en-Provence in 1217. Their children were bor n at Westminster in 1239, at Windsor Castle in 1240, at Bordeau x in 1242, in London in 1245 and at Westminster in 1253. Henry' s personal rule in the direction of royal finances without the p articipation of the barons provoked discontent. The barons wer e further repelled by the influence over his government by his Q ueen's Savoyard kinsmen. His Lusignan half-brothers involved hi m in a disastrous foray in France. Henry's need for financial su pport compelled him in 1258 to agree to the creation of a priv y council of barons to advise him and to oversee the administrat ion of government. Henry sought help from the French king, Loui s IX, and in 1259 made peace abandoning claims to the lost land s in France (the titles of Duc de Normandie and Comte d'Anjou i n 1259, also renouncing claims to the counties of Maine, Tourain e, and Poitou) and agreeing to hold the province still in his ha nds, the Duchy of Gascony, as a feudal vassal of Louis and his s uccessors. His major baronial opponent by 1264 was his brother-i n-law Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. In the ensuing civi l war Montfort captured Henry and his eldest son, Edward, at th e battle of Lewes in Sussex on 14 May 1264. Montfort ruled Engla nd in Henry's name until he was defeated and killed at the battl e of Evesham on 4 Aug. 1265 by Henry's son, the future King Edwa rd I who assumed effective control of the government. HENRY II I OF ENGLAND, King of England, died at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk , on 16 Nov. 1272, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His wido w died at Amesbury, co. Wilts, on 24 June 1291. Paget (1977), pp . 17-18. Powicke (1961), pp. 34-35.

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