Qualla: Battle of Evesham https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:22 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/8/battle-of-evesham-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Evesham https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham Battle of Evesham: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. "The murder of Evesham, for battle it was none." The chronicler Robert of Gloucester left no room for euphemism. On the morning of August 4, 1265, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester -- the man who had forced a king to share power with his barons, who had summoned commoners to Parliament for the first time -- looked up at Green Hill north of Evesham and saw royal banners approaching through a thunderstorm. Some of those banners were his own, captured from his son's forces at Kenilworth and carried by Prince Edward's army as a deliberate deception. De Montfort recognized the trap immediately. "Our bodies are theirs," he reportedly said. "Our souls are God's."

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/8/battle-of-evesham-wp/gcq8-battle-of-evesham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Evesham: A Revolutionary Cornered https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham/ Photo credit Jules & Jenny from Lincoln, UK, CC BY 2.0. De Montfort had won control of England's government a year earlier at the Battle of Lewes, capturing both King Henry III and Prince Edward. He held the king as a figurehead while governing through a council of barons -- a radical experiment in limiting royal authority. But his co...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/8/battle-of-evesham-wp/gcq8-battle-of-evesham-a-revolutionary-cornered.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Evesham: The Prince's Gambit https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham/ Photo credit Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Edward proved a far more capable strategist than anyone had expected from a 26-year-old prince. He seized Gloucester on June 29, cutting off de Montfort's eastward route. When Simon the Younger finally reached Kenilworth Castle, Edward struck first, catching his forces quartered ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/8/battle-of-evesham-wp/gcq8-battle-of-evesham-the-princes-gambit.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Evesham: Slaughter on Green Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham/ Photo credit Tgec17, CC BY-SA 4.0. De Montfort marched out of Evesham at eight in the morning as a thunderstorm broke overhead. The royalists held the high ground along Green Hill, Edward's forces on the left, Gloucester's on the right. Both armies wore crosses -- the baronial white, the royal red -- a practice de...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/8/battle-of-evesham-wp/gcq8-battle-of-evesham-slaughter-on-green-hill.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Evesham: The Idea That Outlived the Man https://qualla.com/battle-of-evesham/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The royalists were ruthless in victory. Parliament at Winchester that September disinherited everyone who had supported de Montfort. But the conflict did not end cleanly. Resistance smoldered across England, concentrated at the nearly impregnable Kenilworth Castle, where loyalist...

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