HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Justiciar, Quo Warranto, De Jure
19 Nov 2020
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Like his father, henry iii was constantly in debt and sought new ways to improve his income. Henry was determined to acquire it for one of his sons and spent several years in fruitless and expensive adventures trying to get it. In 1258 the barons reached the end of their patience and staged a kind of coup d"e tat that established an aristocratic oligarchy that severely checked the power of the king; in effect they created a constitutional monarchy. The barons forced henry to agree to the provisions of oxford in that year, established a baronial council under the leadership of an official called a justiciar, ran the government in the king"s name. The first justiciar was simon de montfort, a younger son of the man who had led the albigensian crusade, the governing council took the name of parliament.
