Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . 110 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. a native English king. Edward was brought up at Windsor, was given by hisfather in 1252 the government of Gascony, and in 1254 married, in the monas-tery of Las Huelgas, Eleanor, sis-ter of Alfonso X. of Castile, receiv-ing immediately thereafter from hisfather Gascony, Ireland, and theWelsh march betwixt the Conwayand the Dee, where, in fightingwith the turbulent W^elshmcn, heearned his first lessons in the P
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . 110 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. a native English king. Edward was brought up at Windsor, was given by hisfather in 1252 the government of Gascony, and in 1254 married, in the monas-tery of Las Huelgas, Eleanor, sis-ter of Alfonso X. of Castile, receiv-ing immediately thereafter from hisfather Gascony, Ireland, and theWelsh march betwixt the Conwayand the Dee, where, in fightingwith the turbulent W^elshmcn, heearned his first lessons in the Parliament of Oxford(1258) he took part with his fatherin his contest with his trouble-some nobles, but thereafter ap-pears to have at first sided withthe great Earl Simon de Mont-fort, the leader of the barons ornational party, without, however,impairing his own personal loy-alty and affection for his father,with whom ere long he was reconciled. It was his rash eagerness in pur-suing an advantage gained over the Londoners, who were devoted to the partyof Simon, that lost the battle of Lewes (1264), one immediate consequence ofwhich was the princes imprisonment as a hos
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