THE REGENCY OF WILLIAM MARSHAL.
19 Oct., 1216.Death of King John[1]
Position of parties[1]
The Church on the king's side[2]
28 Oct.Coronation of Henry III.[3]
11 Nov.Great council at Bristol.[4]
12 Nov.The first charter of Henry III.[5]
1216-17.Progress of the war.[6]
1217.Rising of Wilkin of the Weald.[7]
Louis' visit to France[8]
22 April.Return of Louis from France.[9]
Sieges of Dover, Farnham, and Mount Sorrel.[9]
20 May.The fair of Lincoln.[10]
23 Aug.The sea-fight off Sandwich.[11]
11 Sept.Treaty of Lambeth.[12]
6 Nov.Reissue of the great charter.[13]
Restoration of order by William Marshal.[14]
14 May, 1219.Death of William Marshal.[15]
His character and career.[15]

CHAPTER II.

THE RULE OF HUBERT DE BURGH.
1219.Pandulf the real successor of William Marshal[17]
July, 1221.Langton procures Pandulf's recall.[19]
Ascendency of Hubert de Burgh.[20]
Jan.-Feb., 1221.The rebellion of Albemarle.[20]
July, 1222.The sedition of Constantine FitzAthulf.[22]
1221-24.Marriage alliances.[23]
1219-23.War in Wales.[23]
April, 1223.Henry III. declared by the pope competent to govern.[24]
June, 1224.Revolt of Falkes de Bréautè.[25]
20 June-14 Aug.Siege of Bedford.[25]
Fall of Falkes.[26]
Papal and royal taxation.[27]
April, 1227.End of the minority.[29]
Relations with France during the minority.[29]
The Lusignans and the Poitevin barons.[30]
1224.Louis VIII.'s conquest of Poitou.[31]
1225.Expedition of Richard of Cornwall and William Longsword to Gascony.[32]
Nov., 1226.Accession of Louis IX. in France.[34]
1229-30.Henry III.'s campaign in Brittany and Poitou.[34]
21-30 July, 1230.Siege of Mirambeau.[36]
1228.The Kerry campaign.[37]
2 May, 1230.Death of William of Braose.[38]
1231.Henry III.'s second Welsh campaign.[38]
Aug.Death of Archbishop Richard le Grand.[39]
Gregory IX. and Henry III.[39]
1232.Riots of Robert Twenge[39]
29 July.Fall of Hubert de Burgh.[40]
1231.Death of William Marshal the Younger.[41]
1232.Death of Randolph of Blundeville, Earl of Chester.[41]

CHAPTER III.

THE ALIEN INVASION.
1232-34.Rule of Peter des Roches.[43]
Aug., 1233.Revolt of Richard Marshal[45]
23 Nov.Fight near Monmouth.[47]
1234.Richard Marshal in Ireland.[48]
1 April.Defeat and death of the Earl Marshal near Kildare.[49]
2 April.Edmund Rich consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury.[50]
9 April.Fall of Peter des Roches.[51]
Beginning of Henry III.'s personal government[51]
Character of Henry III.[52]
The alien invasions[53]
14 Jan., 1236.Henry's marriage to Eleanor of Provence.[54]
The Savoyards in England.[54]
Revival of Poitevin influence.[55]
1239.Simon of Montfort Earl of Leicester.[56]
1237.The legation of Cardinal Otto.[57]
1239.Quarrel of Gregory IX. and Frederick II.[58]
1235.Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln.[59]
16 Nov., 1240.Death of Edmund Rich in exile.[60]
Henry III. and Frederick II.[61]
Attempted reconquest of Poitou.[62]
May-Sept., 1242.The campaign of Taillebourg.[63]
1243.Truce with France.[64]
The Lusignans in England.[65]
The baronial opposition.[66]
Grosseteste's opposition to Henry III., and Innocent IV..[66]
1243.Relations with Scotland and Wales.[67]
1240.Death of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth.[67]
1246.Death of David ap Llewelyn.[68]

CHAPTER IV.

POLITICAL RETROGRESSION and NATIONAL PROGRESS.