![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Review Quotes A marvelous literary and historical achievement. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal-an irresistible saga that brings the pages of history completely, provocatively, and magnificently alive. This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the kings incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. Book Synopsis Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. ![]()
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