Research Catalog

Title

Peter des Roches : an alien in English politics, 1205-1238 / Nicholas Vincent.

Author

Vincent, Nicholas.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description

xx, 543 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king.
• The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens - examined here in detail for the first time - are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III.
• His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233-4: a period which, as the author argues, has been much misunderstood. In the process it sheds new light on such hotly debated issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, and loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 31

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 31.

Subject

• Des Roches, Peter, -1238
• Catholic Church > Winchester > Bishops > Biography
• French > Winchester > Biography
• Great Britain > History > Henry III, 1216-1272 > Biography
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1216-1272
• Great Britain > History > John, 1199-1216 > Biography
• Poitou (France) > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-509) and index.

Contents

1. An Alien Abroad -- 2. The Reign of King John -- 3. The Justiciarship -- 4. Magna Carta and Civil War -- 5. The King's Guardian 1216-1219 -- 6. Decline and Disgrace 1219-1227 -- 7. Des Roches and the Crusade 1227-1231 -- 8. The Fall of Hubert de Burgh -- 9. The Coalition -- 10. Des Roches in Power -- 11. The Gathering Storm -- 12. The Marshall's War -- 13. The Fall of Peter Des Roches -- 14. The Final Years 1234-1238.

ISBN

0521552540 (hc)

LCCN

95017649

OCLC

• 228665997
• ocn228665997

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries