A sheriff as men
- England 1215. After the defeat in the Battle of Bouvines, John I. The one from England, nicknamed John the Naked, returned to his country, but his subjects did not receive him. And the hostile attitude towards the king was heightened when he imposed an unfair tax, another. In June, the nobles got him to sign the Magna Carta document, the oldest document that limits the power of the king of England. But in September John managed to get the Pope to cancel the letter.
In the first months of 1216, the noble rebels took Rochester and London and offered the crown of England to Louis, the successor to the throne of France. Jehan had only three strengths: Windsor, Dover and Lincoln. In the latter was a young woman from Gazteluzai: Nicholaa de la Haye
Nicholaa was born between 1150 and 1156. His father was the Norman gentleman Richard de la Haye, lord of Lincoln Castle, and his death was his daughter defending the castle. When they attacked the castle in 1191, for example, contemporary chronicler Richard de Devizes gathered that Nicholaá “thinking about him as a woman, defended Lincoln’s castle as a man.”
Magna also stood out in the Charter process. The castle was besieged by opponents of King John in 1215, but Nicholaá remained unscathed and managed to sign a truce with Gilbert de Ghent, head of the rebels. When John visited the castle in 1216, the lady of the castle told him that at his age he was not able to carry out his duties and offered him the keys of the castle, but the king confirmed him in the office. On 19 October of the same year Juan Sin Tierra died, but before his death he named De la Haye sheriff of Lincolnshire.
A death like women
Joan's heir, Henrike III.ak, was 9 years old when he put the crown on his head. Despite the help of the noble William Marshal, his opponents took advantage of the weakness of the new ruler; the noble rebels, allied with the army of the French pretender Luis, once again attacked one of the most important fortifications in England: Lincoln. The chastity, as usual, resisted firmly, but needed reinforcements to overcome the siege. On May 20, 1217, William Marshale, protector of the king, attacked the besiegers from the outside, inside Nicholaa of the Hague, and achieved victory. This and the triumph in the naval battle of Sandwich were sufficient to strengthen the throne of Henry III and drive away the French and local opposition.
Henry’s defenders III.aren dedicated their praises to the Castilian woman, but took away everything else. Four days after Lincoln's victory, the sheriff was dismissed to surrender the king's uncle, Count of Salisbury. Apparently the Count was not content with this and also wanted the lands and the castle of De la Hague. Nicholaa, who spent another 9 years defending the fortress, did not have any reinforcements or praise again. In 1226 he surrendered and died four years later.
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