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  Henry III of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henri was born Edouard-Alexandre at the Royal Château of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, the fourth son of King Henri II and Catherine de Medici.
In 1584 the King's youngest brother and heir presumptive, François, Duke of Anjou, died.
Henry III was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Henry III of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For instance, one Poitevin, Peter des Riveaux, held the offices of treasurer of the household, keeper of the king's wardrobe, keeper of the privy seal, and the sheriffdoms of twenty-one English counties simultaneously.
Henry himself, on the other hand, was much taken with the cult of the Anglo-Saxon saint king Edward the Confessor who had been canonized in 1161.
The centrepiece of Henry's renovated Westminster Abbey was to be a shrine to the confessor king, Edward.
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 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Henry III, the first monarch to be crowned in his minority, inherited the throne at age nine.
Henry's acquiescence to the demands of Rome initiated a backlash of protest from his subjects: laymen were denied opportunity to be nominated for vacant ecclesiastical offices and clergymen lost any chance of advancement.
Henry was forced to agree to the Provisions of Oxford, a document placing the barons in virtual control of the realm.
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 Henry III, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Henry became king under a regency; William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke, and later Pandulf acted as chief of government, while Peter des Roches was the king’s guardian.
In 1227, Henry was granted full powers of kingship, and in 1230, with typical willfulness and against the advice of the justiciar, he led an unsuccessful expedition to Gascony and Brittany.
Henry then assumed direct control of the government, but despite frequent protests from the barons and from his brother, Richard, earl of Cornwall, the king continued to surround himself with French favorites, including relatives of Eleanor of Provence (whom he married in 1236) and his own Poitevin half brothers.
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 ipedia.com: Henry III of England Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was born in 1207, the son of King John, and succeeded to the throne at the age of nine, with the res...
He was born in 1207, the son of King John, and succeeded to the throne at the age of nine, with the result that the country was ruled by regents until 1227.
Henry's son, Edward, turned the tables on de Montfort in 1265 at the Battle of Evesham, following which savage retribution was exacted on the rebels.
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 AllRefer.com - Henry III, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Henry III 1551–89, king of France (1574–89); son of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.
The League was revived by Henri de Guise, however, when the death (1584) of the king's brother, Francis, duke of AlenCon, made the Protestant Henry of Navarre the legal heir to the French throne.
However, Henry III procured the assassination of de Guise and his brother Louis in the hope of quelling the rebellion, but his action only further provoked the Catholics.
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 Henry III of England -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
According to Nicholas Trevet, Henry was a thickset man of medium height, with a narrow forehead and a drooping left eyelid (inherited by his son, (King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)) Edward I).
Henry's regents immediately declared their intention to rule by (The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215) Magna Carta which they did during Henry’s minority.
Henry was extremely pious, and his journeys were often delayed by his insistance on hearing Mass several times a day.
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 King Henry III of France
Henry III (of France) (1551-1589), king of France (1574-1589), the last of the Valois kings.
Henry was born at Fontainebleau on September 19, 1551, the third son of Henry II and Catherine de Médicis.
In 1585, when the king, was forced to exclude Henry of Navarre from the succession and repealed all the privileges granted to the Huguenots, Henry of Navarre began the so-called War of the Three Henrys against the king.
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 webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
Henry was born in Bolingbroke Castle in April 1367, the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster.
The son of King Henry V and Queen Catherine of Valois, Henry was born at Windsor on December 6, 1421.
Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-56), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
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 TimeRef - History Timelines - HENRY (III, King of England 1216-1272)
Henry became King of England in 1216 at the age of only ten after the death of his father King John and was crowned several later at the abbey of Gloucester.
In 1236 Henry married Eleanor of Provance, the younger sister of the Queen of France and their first son Edward was to become the next king of England.
Henry was not a good soldier or leader and eventhough he attempted to regain some of the territories lost in his father's reign, nothing was achieved.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Plantagenets > Henry III
Henry III, King John's son, was only nine when he became king.
Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the king's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
However, Henry escaped, joined forces with the lords of the Marches (on the Welsh border), and finally defeated and killed de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.
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 Henry III, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
1551–89, king of France (1574–89); son of King Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici.
The League was revived by Henri de Guise, however, when the death (1584) of the king’s brother, Francis, duke of Alençon, made the Protestant Henry of Navarre the legal heir to the French throne.
Henry of Navarre succeeded him as Henry IV.
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 Henry III King England (01 Oct 1206 - 16 Nov 1272)
King Henry III came to the throne in 1216 when he was only nine years old, but did not rule until he came of age in 1227.
Henry was a fickle tyrant who surrounded himself with favorites from other countries.
Henry III King Of England was married at Cantebury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England and was buried at Westminster Abbey where his altar-tomb and that of his wife can be seen today.
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 Henry III
Henry, the eldest son of John I and Isabella of Angouleme, was born in Winchester in 1207.
Henry III married Eleanor of Provence in 1236 and the couple had two sons and four daughters.
Although defeated at Lewes, Henry III regained control of his kingdom after the death of Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.
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 King Henry III of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henry III was born in 1207 and succeeded his father John on the throne of England in 1216.
Surrounded by barons who had been proved in the hardest schools of war, the King had the spirit of an interior decorator; the nation could have born the expense of his artistic tastes, could have forgiven the eccentricity of it all, but Henry showed time and again that he was timorous as well as artistic.
For a while Henry had reason for pride: he married Eleanor, daughter of the Count of Savoy, and sister of the Queen of France, the finest match in Europe; his sister Isabella was married to the Emperor Frederick II, and his son Edward to Eleanor of Castille.
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 King Henry  III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By 1258 Henry was compelled to hand power to these barons, led by Simon de Monfort.
Henry's most lasting contribution to his country was his advancement of the design of Gothic architecture.
In particular he instituted the building of a new Abbey at Westminster and in Oct 1269 the relics of the Saint, Edward the Confessor, were laid in a shrine behind its altar.
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 King Henry IV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henry IV was the first king of France of the Bourbon dynasty.
He had been king of Navarre and a leader of the Huguenot (French Protestant) forces in a series of civil wars between the Huguenots and French Roman Catholics.
Henry was born in Pau, France, to Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre.
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 King Henry III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henry III was only nine years old at his accession in 1216, declaring himself of age in 1227.
Henry renounced these and the second Barons' War broke out in 1264, during which he was captured with his eldest son Edward at the battle of Lewes by Simon de Montfort, who ruled briefly until he died at Evesham in August 1265.
After that Henry little part in government and was succeeded by his son King Edward I in 1272.
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 Henry III, king of England
Henry III, king of England: Legacy - Legacy Henry III has suffered at the hands of many historians, in part, because of the hostility of...
Henry III, king of England: Reign - Reign Early Years Henry became king under a regency; William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke, and...
Henry III: Nicholas Vincent reviews the career of the king whose long reign was overshadowed by the rivalries of his nobles, and who is primarily remembered for his piety and his building activity.
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 Henry III --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of Saxony (1142) and Bavaria (1154–56), thereafter founding the city of Munich (1157), enhancing the position of Lübeck, and greatly extending his territories.
Henry V is Shakespeare's ideal monarch: brave, eloquent, honorable, and efficient to the point of ruthlessness when necessary.
Text of the confirmation of the Great Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest by King Edward I. The charters were originally granted under the reign of King Henry III, Edward’s father, as the common laws of the land.
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - King Henry III
Henry was crowned by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, and again by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry had a droopy eye, which appears to be a genetic trait of some of the Plantagenets; his son, Edward I, inherited it.
Henry's zoo at the Tower of London was one of the most advanced in Europe.
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 KING HENRY III - LETTER SIGNED 03/23/1578
The King writes that he is sending a friend and loyal councilor "of our Privy Council and Master of Common Petitions of our hostelry, the Sire de Maspaunault" to Lanquedoc in order to execute an edict of peace.
His reign as King of France was marked by continuous civil conflicts between Catholics and Huguenots.
After his mother's death in 1589, Henry III was murdered by a Jacobin monk, Jacques Clément.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Matthew of Paris: King Henry III’s Reformation of the Coinage, 1248   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Matthew of Paris: King Henry III’s Reformation of the Coinage, 1248
The practice of clipping and counterfeiting coins was prevalent in the reign of Henry III (A.D. Great hostility was aroused especially against foreign money-changers who accompanied the papal tax collectors and the merchants who attended the fairs.
The French king also ordered all persons guilty of this crime who were found in his kingdom to be suspended on gibbets and exposed to the winds....
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 Notes for ~*Henry III "King" of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henry was a cultivated man, but a lousy politician.
Henry's failures incited hostilities among a group of barons led byhis brother-in-law, S
Henry was forced to agree to awide ranging plan of reforms, the Provision
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 I1335: Henry III King Of England (10 OCT 1206 - 16 NOV 1272)
I1335: Henry III King Of England (10 OCT 1206 - 16 NOV 1272)
Descendants of Henry III King Of England and Eleanor Berenger Of Provence
1 Eleanor Plantagenet = Alphonso King of Aragon
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 AllRefer.com - Henry III, king of England : Legacy (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Henry III, king of England : Legacy (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Henry III, king of England, British And Irish History, Biographies
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 Find in a Library: King Henry III and the Lord Edward.
Find in a Library: King Henry III and the Lord Edward.
Subjects: Henry -- III, -- King of England, -- 1207-1272.
Edward -- I, -- King of England, -- 1239-1307.
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 King Henry III of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Baronian discontent simmered, boiling over in 1258 when Henry facing financial disaster attempted to raise large sums from his magnates.
Simon de Montford lead a rebellion against the King (the Barons Wars) which was defeated after initial success, thereafter Hnery ceeded much of his power to his son.
After King Henry died she tooks the veil at Amesbury.
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Henry III, King of Castile and Leon
Mary Trastamara (daughter of Henry III of Castile and Leon)
Henry took back crown lands lost to the nobility, in 1393, with the support of his towns.
During Henry's reign, Castile conquered the Canary Islands.
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