Read our dramatic account of the 1st Battle of Northampton in 1264. This important Battle sees King Henry III and his son Prince Edward take on the 6th Earl of Leicester in a fight between democracy and monarchy.

The heroic son of Earl Simon de Montfort and two friends attempt to hold back Prince Edward and 40 mounted knights as democracy is betrayed by the Monks of St Andrews. Discover how the King breaches the walls of Northampton Castle with the view to hanging hundreds of Oxford scholars studying at the University of Northampton and devolving the beginnings of Parliament.

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