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Hello, on the 20th of May 1217, two armies fought at Lincoln to keep or to win the English crown.

The forces of the new boykin, Henry III, attacked those of Louis of France,

the claimant of the throne backed by rebel barons.

At one stage, they controlled about two-thirds of England.

Henry's regent will be a martial law's almost 70 when it said he led the charge on Lincoln

that day in his victory, confirmed his reputation as England's greatest knight.

Louis sent to France for reinforcements, but in August these two were defeated to see its

sandwich.

As part of the peace deal, Henry reissued Magna Carta, which King John had granted in 1215,

but soon withdrawn.

And Louis went home, leaving England's Anglo-French rule as more Anglo and less French than he had planned.

The admit to discuss the battle of Lincoln 1217, R, Louis Wilkinson,

Professor of Medieval History, Canterbury Christchurch University,

Stephen Church, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia,

and Thomas Asperidge, reader in Medieval History at Queen Mary University of London.

Louis Wilkinson, that'd been a civil war in England since 1215, what had provoked it?

Well, it had basically been both provoked by King John's extremely harsh system of royal government.

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