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This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233-4. It sheds new light on such issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

French --- -French --- -Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology --- Biography --- History --- -Des Roches, Peter --- Catholic Church --- -Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Bishops --- -Biography --- Great Britain --- Poitou (France) --- -History --- -Biography. --- Politics and government --- -Bishops --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Des Roches, Peter, --- Biography. --- Des Roches, Peter --- Henry III, 1216-1272 --- England --- Winchester (England) --- 1216-1272 --- John Lackland 1199-1216 --- French (Nation) --- Poitou --- Des Roches, Peter, - d. 1238. --- Great Britain - History - Henry III, 1216-1272 - Biography. --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1216-1272. --- Great Britain - History - John, 1199-1216 - Biography. --- Poitou (France) - Biography. --- Church of Rome --- Arts and Humanities --- ANGLETERRE --- HISTOIRE --- 13E SIECLE --- POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT --- RELATIONS EXTERIEURES --- FRANCE --- MOYEN AGE