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Attempted reconquest of Poitou. 62 May-Sept., 1242. The campaign of Taillebourg. 63 1243. Truce with France. 64 The Lusignans in England. 65 The baronial opposition. 66 Grosseteste's opposition to Henry III., and Innocent IV.. 66 1243. Relations with Scotland and Wales. 67 1240. Death of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth. 67 1246. Death of David ap Llewelyn. 68

CHAPTER IV.

POLITICAL RETROGRESSION and NATIONAL PROGRESS.

1248-58.	Characteristics of the history of these ten years.	69
	Decay of Henry's power in Gascony.	69
1248-52.	Simon de Montfort, seneschal of Gascony.	70
Aug., 1253.	Henry III. in Gascony.	72
1254.	Marriage and establishment of Edward the king's son.	73
	Edward's position in Gascony.	73
	Edward's position in Cheshire.	74
1254.	Llewelyn ap Griffith sole Prince of North Wales.	75
	Edward in the four cantreds and in West Wales.	76
1257.	Welsh campaign of Henry and Edward.	76
	Revival of the baronial opposition.	77
1255.	Candidature of Edmund, the king's son, for Sicily.	78
1257.	Richard of Cornwall elected and crowned King of the Romans.	80
	Leicester as leader of the opposition.	81
	Progress in the age of Henry III.	81
	The cosmopolitan and the national ideals.	82
	French influence.	83
	The coming of the friars.	84
1221.	Gilbert of Freynet and the first Dominicans in England.	84
1224.	Arrival of Agnellus of Pisa and the first