Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
Summary
Henry III and Louis IX met on five occasions, or, to put it more precisely, there were five periods during which Henry III was in France and they had meetings. These meetings illuminate the personalities, conduct and outlook of the two kings, and also the forms of symbolic and non-verbal communication about which Björn Weiler has written. Study of the meetings also prompts reflection on the very different source materials available for the study of English and French history in this period and the very different ways they have sometimes been utilised by historians.
Henry III and Louis IX had long and overlapping reigns, Henry's from 1216 to 1272, Louis' from 1226 to 1270. They both endured minorities. They married sisters and were faithful husbands. Indeed this paper might also be called the meetings of Eleanor and Margaret of Provence. Both kings were deeply religious. Both were peacemakers. They started as enemies and became friends. One understands Nicholas Vincent's question ‘is there really that great a difference between their respective styles?’ And yet everyone would agree that the two kings were also very different. Henry was of middle height, compact of body with a drooping eyelid. Louis was tall, willowy, angel faced. Henry III was deserted by his mother, Louis brought up under his mother's care. Both kings took the cross but only Louis went on crusade. Above all, Louis was far more successful as a king. He was made a saint and Henry was not.
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- Thirteenth Century England XProceedings of the Durham Conference, 2003, pp. 1 - 30Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005