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Events from the 1220s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry III
Events
1220
28 April – foundation stone of Salisbury Cathedral is laid. The cathedral is being relocated from Old Sarum and renewed in Gothic style.Evans Sydney Salisbury Cathedral: a reflective guide Michael Russell Publishing Salisbury 1985 15http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/history.cathedral.php History of the Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral website 2007-12-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20071230011523/http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/history.cathedral.php 30 December 2007 live
17 May – second coronation of King Henry III at Westminster Abbey, Pope Honorius III having deemed that Henry's first coronation at Gloucester in 1216 had not been carried out in accordance with church rites.http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/king_england/henry3.php Henry III, Archonotology.org 2007-12-10
May – construction of the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins.
Re-building in Gothic style begins at York Minster and Beverley Minster.http://www.beverleyminster.org/ Official Site for Beverley Minster 2007-12-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20071201005212/http://www.beverleyminster.org/ 2007-12-01 live
1221
25 April – Eustace of Fauconberg is consecrated Bishop of London; from about this year he also serves as the first known Chancellor of the Exchequer.
21 June – Henry's ten-year-old sister, Joan of England, marries King Alexander II of Scotland at York Minster.Agnes Mure Mackenzie Agnes Mure Mackenzie The Foundations of Scotland https://archive.org/details/foundationsofsco0000mack registration Edinburgh Oliver & Boyd 1957 251
August – arrival of first Dominican friars in England.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/135 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 135–137
15 August – Dominicans found Blackfriars, Oxford.
1222
17 April – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens the Synod of Oxford at Osney Abbey, which introduces measures against Jews.Jewish History 1220-1229 http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1220 jewishhistory.org.il 8 May 2022 15 July 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210715173946/http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1220 dead
June – Great Council at Westminster approves taxes on all property owners to contribute to the defense of the Crusader kingdoms, to be gathered and transferred by the Templars.Tibble Steve https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/king-jerusalem-england/ When the King of Jerusalem Came to England 2024 Medievalists .
15 July – rioting after London defeats Westminster in an annual wrestling contest; ring-leaders hanged or mutilated in punishment.
Patent rolls authorise minting of the silver farthing in London.North J. J. English Hammered Coinage 1 3rd Spink & Son London 1994 1963 9780907605454 51
1223
28 August – Richard de Lucy named admiral of England.Beatson Robert https://books.google.com/books?id=xHMOfs9CleYC A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland... III 1786 37
Henry III given limited powers of governance, although not yet fully of age.
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, seizes Carmarthen Castle and Cardigan Castle from Llywelyn the Great.
Justiciar Hubert de Burgh, occupies Montgomeryshire.
John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, visits England for fundraising.
1224
5 May – War between France and England breaks out when Louis VIII of France attacks Poitou and northern Gascony.
June–August – Siege of Bedford: rebels surrender to Hubert de Burgh.The History Today Companion to British History https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse registration London Collins & Brown 1-85585-178-4 1995 72
10 September – Arrival of the first Franciscan friars in England.
1225
Magna Carta affirmed by Henry III, in return for issuing a property tax.
King Horn, the oldest known English verse romance, written.
Franciscan house founded at Greyfriars in London.
1226
Cardigan Castle and Carmarthen Castle become royal castles.
Nuneaton is granted a chartered market.
1227
January – Henry III declares himself to be of age.
March – England makes a truce with France.
1228
3 August – Walter d'Eynsham enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury by his fellow monks of the cathedral chapter there.Greenway, Diana E. 1971 http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33853 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces) Canterbury: Archbishops He will not be consecrated.
Hubert de Burgh leads an unsuccessful military campaign in south Wales.
1229
5 January – Walter d'Eynsham's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury is quashed by the Pope and King following his failure to acquit himself in theological examination.Fryde, E. B. et al. Handbook of British Chronology. p. 233.J. Enoch Powell Enoch Powell Keith Wallis The House of Lords in the Middle Ages London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968 150
10 June – Richard le Grant enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
October – planned campaign in France delayed; Henry blames Hubert de Burgh.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 79–81 0-7126-5616-2
Robert Grosseteste is teaching theology to Franciscans at the University of Oxford by about this date.
First St. John's Bridge, Lechlade, built over the River Thames.
Beverston Castle founded in Gloucestershire.
Births
1220
Approximate date – Roger Bacon, philosopher and scientist (died 1292)
1222
4 August – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, soldier (died 1262)
1223
John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (died 1267)
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (died 1265)
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales (died 1282)
Deaths
1220
1 June – Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (born 1176)
c. November – Philip of Oldcoates, nobleman and royal official (fl. before 1194)
1221
Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk (year of birth unknown)
1224
William d'Aubigny, 4th Earl of Arundel (born c. 1203)
1225
Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk (born 1186)
1226
7 March – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, military leader (born c. 1167)
11 December – Robert de Ros, baron (born 1177)
1228
June (approximate date) – Reginald de Braose, rebel baron
9 July – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1150)
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