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Historical person
1207–1272
Henry III ruled England from 1216 to 1272, one of the longest reigns of the medieval English monarchy. His disputes with the barons, financial pressures and reliance on foreign favourites led to reform movements and the rebellion of Simon de Montfort.
In Griff Hosker’s King in Waiting, Simon de Montfort defeats and captures King Henry III of England at the Battle of Lewes to become de facto ruler of the country. In Sharon Kay Penman’s Here Be Dragons, Wales and England, late twelfth to early thirteenth century. Other novels featuring Henry III of England include David Field’s The Royal Hammer, Sharon Kay Penman’s Falls the Shadow, David Field’s The Conscience of a King, Griff Hosker’s Broken Arrow, and David Pilling’s Longsword (II).
Series
The trilogy follows native Welsh rulers and their families across the thirteenth century, from Llywelyn the Great and Joanna through Simon de Montfort’s baronial reform movement to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s final struggle against Edward I. It treats Welsh politics, marriage, kinship and resistance alongside English royal expansion.
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The Roger of Huntley series follows a fugitive monk and crusader through the violence of the Third Crusade and the later crisis of King John’s reign. The early books place Roger among soldiers, pilgrims and rulers in the eastern Mediterranean, while the later novels return him to England…
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Lord Edward’s Archer follows Gerald Warbow from the Welsh Marches into the wars and political crises of Edward I and Edward II. The series combines archer warfare with the Second Barons’ War, Welsh resistance, crusading, the Scottish wars and court intrigue. It is a medieval military sequence about…
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The Medieval Saga follows interlinked fictional families through two centuries of English dynastic conflict, beginning with the invasions of 1066 and ending with Simon de Montfort’s challenge to Henry III. The sequence places ordinary soldiers, household officers and landed families beside the rulers whose wars repeatedly reshape their…
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The Longsword series follows Hugh Longsword and the surviving Montfortian rebels after the Second Barons' War. Moving from outlaw resistance in England to Edward's crusade, political conspiracy and the conquest of Wales, the novels trace the violent consolidation of royal power under Henry III and Edward I.
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The Wars of the Roses Saga begins well before the fifteenth-century conflict, tracing the Plantagenet inheritance from the defeat of Simon de Montfort in 1265. The fictional Bywater family serves successive kings and discovers that royal patronage can restore an estate in one reign and destroy it in…
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The Plantagenet Saga spans the dynasty from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard III. Across fourteen novels, family rebellion, disputed succession, royal marriage and war connect the Angevin Empire, the conquest of Wales, conflict with Scotland, the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses.
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