Simon de Montfort wins the Battle of Lewes
May 14, 1264
The baronial rebel leader captured King Henry III and his son Edward on the Sussex downs after a confused battle in fog. For a year England was ruled by committee in the king's name. Montfort's earldom would become a byword for parliamentary precedent. His summons of town representatives to a parliament in January 1265 established a model that would shape English governance for centuries.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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