. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. HENRY III., King of England, was born atWinchester, on the ist of October, was the eldest son of King John by hisqueen, Isabella of Angouleme. He wasonly nine years old at the time of his acces-sion to the throne, and the Dauphin ofFrance, Louis, at the head of a foreignarmy, and supported by a faction of Englishnobles, had assumed the reins of govern-ment. The cause of the young king wasespoused by the Earl of Pembroke, and hewas solemnly crowned in the abbey-churchof St. Peter, at Gloucester, by the
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. HENRY III., King of England, was born atWinchester, on the ist of October, was the eldest son of King John by hisqueen, Isabella of Angouleme. He wasonly nine years old at the time of his acces-sion to the throne, and the Dauphin ofFrance, Louis, at the head of a foreignarmy, and supported by a faction of Englishnobles, had assumed the reins of govern-ment. The cause of the young king wasespoused by the Earl of Pembroke, and hewas solemnly crowned in the abbey-churchof St. Peter, at Gloucester, by the papallegate, Gualo. In a short time Louis wascompelled to sue for peace and quit thekingdom. Pembroke was appointed Regent, andthe first act of the new reign was to confirmMagna Charta, its sixty-one chapters having been reduced toforty-two. Parliament began to consider it as the funda-mental law of the nation, and its observance as the conditionof their grants. Pembroke having died in the third yearof his regency, the power was divided between Hubert deBurgh and Peter de Roches,
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