Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-509) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. An Alien Abroad -- 2. The Reign of King John -- 3. The Justiciarship -- 4. Magna Carta and Civil War -- 5. The King's Guardian 1216-1219 -- 6. Decline and Disgrace 1219-1227 -- 7. Des Roches and the Crusade 1227-1231 -- 8. The Fall of Hubert de Burgh -- 9. The Coalition -- 10. Des Roches in Power -- 11. The Gathering Storm -- 12. The Marshall's War -- 13. The Fall of Peter Des Roches -- 14. The Final Years 1234-1238.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king."--BOOK JACKET. "The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens - examined here in detail for the first time - are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233-4: a period which, as the author argues, has been much misunderstood. In the process it sheds new light on such hotly debated issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, and loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Des Roches, Peter,-1238.
Des Roches, Peter.
Des Roches, Peter,-1238
Des Roches, Peter,-1238.
Peter (des Roches)
Peter-1238
Pierre des Roches,(11.-1238)
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Catholic Church-- England-- Winchester-- Bishops
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church-- Great Britain-- Bishops-- 13th century
Catholic Church.
Église catholique-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 13e siècle.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
French-- England-- Winchester-- History-- To 1500.
French-- England-- Winchester, Biography.
Bishops.
Français-- Grande-Bretagne-- 13e siècle.
French.
Geschichte 1205-1238.
Politics and government
Politik
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, History, Henry III, 1216-1272, Biography.
Great Britain, History, John, 1199-1216, Biography.
Great Britain, Politics and government, 1216-1272.
Poitou (France), Biography.
England
England, Winchester.
France, Poitou.
Grande-Bretagne, 1199-1216 (Jean)
Grande-Bretagne, 1216-1272 (Henri III)
Grande-Bretagne, Politique et gouvernement, 1216-1272.
Great Britain, History, Henry III, 1216-1272, Biography.
Great Britain, History, John, 1199-1216, Biography.
Great Britain, Politics and government, 1216-1272.