King John (play)
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The Life and Death of King John, by William Shakespeare, is a history play about the reign of John, King of England, the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the father of Henry III. King Joh
The Life and Death of King John (1590): The stage actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) as the eponymous monarch. (Charles A. Buchel, 1900)
A 19th century drawing by Thomas Nast
"King John", Act IV, Scene 1, Hubert and Arthur (from the Boydell series), James Northcote (1789)
The Gossiping Blacksmith, Edward Penny (1769)
Henry III of England
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Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.
King John (play)
…Shakespeare, is a history play about the reign of John, King of England (r. 1199–1216), the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the father of Henry III. King John was written in the mid-1590s but published in 1623 in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works. King John – King of England…
Henry III depicted in a manuscript, c. 1280–1300
The Second Battle of Lincoln in 1217, showing the death of Thomas, Count of Perche (left), by Matthew Paris
The Battle of Sandwich in 1217, showing the capture of the French flagship and the execution of Eustace the Monk (r) and the support of the English bishops (l), by Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris's depiction of the second coronation of Henry in 1220