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Also had 2 sons who dies young and 5 daughters.
Henry III (born 1207, ruled 1216-1272). The elder son of King John and
grandson of Henry II was a weak and incompetent ruler. He was born in
Winchester on Oct. 1, 1207. Until he came of age, in 1227, the government
was in the hands of regents.
In 1236 Henry married Eleanor of Provence. His extravagance, his lavish
gifts to favorites and to his wife's French relatives, and an
unsuccessful war in France in 1242 caused mounting opposition to him. In
1258 a group of barons, led by Simon de Montfort, agreed to grant the
king money only if he accepted the Provisions of Oxford, a body of
reforms to be carried out by a commission of barons.
Henry repudiated the reform measures in 1261. In the Barons' War that
followed, King Henry and his son Edward were captured at Lewes in 1264.
Edward escaped and rescued his father. After the defeat and death of
Simon in 1265, Henry was restored to the throne. Thereafter, however, the
gifted and respected Edward was king in all but name. Henry died at
Westminster, on Nov. 16, 1272 (see Edward, Kings of England; Montfort).
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Henry III (of England) (1207-72), king of England (1216-72), son and
successor of King John (Lackland), and a member of the house of Anjou, or
Plantagenet. Henry ascended the throne at the age of nine, on the death
of his father. During his minority the kingdom was ruled by William
Marshal, earl of Pembroke, as regent, but after his death in 1219 the
justiciar Hubert de Burgh was the chief power in the government. During
the regency the French, who occupied much of eastern England, were
expelled, and rebellious barons were subdued.
Henry was declared of age in 1227. In 1232 he dismissed Hubert de Burgh
from his court and commenced ruling without the aid of ministers. Henry
displeased the barons by filling government and church offices with
foreign favorites, many of them relatives of his wife, Eleanor of
Provence, whom he married in 1236, and by squandering money on
Continental wars, especially in France. In order to secure the throne of
Sicily for one of his sons, Henry agreed to pay the pope a large sum.
When the king requested money from the barons to pay his debt, they
refused and in 1258 forced him to agree to the Provisions of Oxford,
whereby he agreed to share his power with a council of barons. Henry soon
repudiated his oath, however, with papal approval. After a brief period
of war, the matter was referred to the arbitration of Louis IX, king of
France, who decided in Henry's favor in a judgment called the Mise of
Amiens (1264). Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, accordingly led the
barons into war, defeated Henry at Lewes, and took him prisoner. In 1265,
however, Henry's son and heir, Edward, later King Edward I, led the royal
troops to victory over the barons at Evesham, about 40.2 km (about 25 mi)
south of Birmingham. Simon de Montfort was killed in the battle, and the
barons agreed to a compromise with Edward and his party in 1267. From
that time on Edward ruled England, and when Henry died, he succeeded him
as king.
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