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Professor Robert Bartlett: King Richard the Lionheart ... His brother John was now the only surviving son of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor, and quickly secured his coronation.But John’s teenage ...

Henry III was nine years old when he became the fourth Plantagenet king of England. The French dynasty had ruled England and much of France for 50 years. But Henry's father, King John, had lost ...