Qualla: Battle of Lincoln (1217) https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1217 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1217-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lincoln (1217) https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1217 Battle of Lincoln (1217): Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1217/ Photo credit DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture a seventy-year-old man strapping on a helmet, swinging onto a warhorse, and leading the charge that decides who will rule England. That is not a metaphor. On 20 May 1217, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, around seventy years old and serving as regent for a nine-year-old king, rode at the head of an English relief army into the streets of Lincoln to break a French siege. He had been a famous tournament champion in his thirties. He had served four kings before this one. His son had to remind him to put his helmet on. By nightfall the French commander was dead, half the rebel barons of England were prisoners, and the Plantagenet line - and with it the Magna Carta England that had only just been wrenched out of King John - had a future after all.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1217-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1217-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lincoln (1217): How England Almost Became French https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1217/ Photo credit Matthew Paris, Public domain. In the autumn of 1215, King John had broken his promises in Magna Carta within weeks of sealing the charter. The rebel barons who had forced him into it concluded they could no longer trust him as king and invited Prince Louis of France - heir to the French throne and married to ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/w/battle-of-lincoln-1217-wp/gcrw-battle-of-lincoln-1217-the-charge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lincoln (1217): The Lincoln Fair https://qualla.com/battle-of-lincoln-1217/ Photo credit Richard Caton Woodville Jr., Public domain. Then came the part of the day that the chroniclers, looking back, called the Lincoln Fair - their wry name for the systematic looting that followed. The justification was that the citizens of Lincoln had welcomed Louis and supplied his forces, making the city itself fair plunder ...

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