Identifier: storyofgreatestn06elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d beautiful, but quickly made herself detested by the subjects of herhusband. When she came to England, she brought her four uncles and a largenumber of relatives and friends, upon whom Henry showered favors, givingthem money and lands, and castles to live in, and appointing a number tobishoprics and offices of high honor. You remember that King John promised to pay a yearly rental to the Pope,who naturally looked upon Henry HI. as his vassal. The Pope sent a legateto England who returned to Rome so laden with treasure, that the Great Coun-cil of England met to discuss what could be done to avert the impending ruinof the country. The barons were present, and the lesser knights were sum-moned, but though they conferred earnestly, they were not able to do anything.Finally, the man for the hour appeared in the person of Simon de Montfort,Earl of Leicester. He was a Frenchman, who gained his title from his mother,and had married the sister of the Kings wife. Because Simon was a foreigner.
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VI -J 4 England—The Barons Wars 1007 the people did not trust him at first, but he soon convinced them that he wasas much an Englishman at heart as they, and was ready to risk anything to helpthem. Even the King recognized the stern stuff of which his brother-in-lawwas made. One day, when the royal barge was caught in a thunder-storm onthe Thames, the earl, seeing His Majestys terror, tried to soothe him withassurance that the tempest would soon pass. Ah, replied the King, I fearyou more than all the thunder and lightning in the world. When the people came to recognize Simon de Montforts nobility of charac-ter, they gave him the name of Righteous Simon. He held his peace as longas he could, but the mountains of debt continued to pile up, and Henry keptplunging into the most foolish of wars and taxed the people beyond their abilityto bear. There came a terrible year, when the harvest failed, and, in the faminethat followed, thousands of poor peasants died in their miserable huts. It

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