By 1215 King John was in serious trouble. He had upset his subjects in many and various ways. He had lost the English dukedoms of Normandy and Brittany, and the counties of Aquitaine, Poitou, and Anjou, to Philip of France…
With the siege of Lincoln castle lifted, after the garrison, led by the redoubtable Nicholaa held firm, and the English army led by William Marshall breaks through the strangling French, the gallant ladies who led the resistance find themselves…