Sunday 17 December 2017

Chronicle of the Battle of Lewes, May 1264

Visions of St. Thomas Becket and St. George, both England's national saints, are said to have during the Battle of Lewes in 1264 in which Simon de Monfort defeats Henry III's royalist forces.


References

Battle of Lewes - Wikipedia

The Song of Lewes, p. 85
https://archive.org/stream/songlewes00richgoog#page/n124/mode/2up

Magna Carta Project

Laura Ashe (2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation. OUP Oxford. pp. 368–. ISBN 978-0-19-253444-6.



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