The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264.[1] It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the "uncrowned King of England". Henry III's forces left the safety of Lewes Castle and St. Pancras Priory to engage the barons in battle and was initially successful, with his son Prince Edward routing part of the baronial army with a cavalry charge. However, Edward pursued his quarry off the battlefield and left Henry's men exposed. Henry was forced to launch an infantry attack up Offham Hill where he was defeated by the barons' men defending the summit. The royalists fled back to the castle and priory and the King was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, ceding many of his powers to de Montfort.
^Maurice Keen (1999). Medieval Warfare: A History. OUP Oxford. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-19-164738-3.
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the town of Evesham, Worcestershire. With the BattleofLewes, de Montfort had won control of royal government, but after the defection of several close...
Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town ofLewes in East Sussex, England. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding...
subsequent armed conflict, known as the Second Barons' War. After the BattleofLewes, Edward was held hostage by the rebellious barons, but escaped after...
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de Montfort. The settlement was made on the day of the BattleofLewes, one of the two major battlesof the Second Barons' War. The conflict between king...
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by the rebel barons at the BattleofLewes a year earlier. Perrin notes a roll of accounts from 1277 where the purchase of cloth for the king's tailor...
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government of England. After the baronial victory at the BattleofLewes in 1264, Simon de Montfort took control of royal government, but at the Battleof Evesham...
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, captured most of southeast England in the Second Barons' War. At the BattleofLewes in 1264, Henry and Prince...
Henry, in 1264 the rebel army of Simon de Montfort passed southwards through Surrey on their way to the BattleofLewes in Sussex. Although the rebels...
spring of 1263. The royalist barons and rebel barons fought each other in the Second Barons' War. Montfort defeated the king at the BattleofLewes in 1264...
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