The Royalist siege of Mountsorrel in spring 1217 was the direct trigger for the Second Battle of Lincoln. The French relief force marched north and was destroyed in Lincoln, effectively ending the First Barons War. Mountsorrel thus sits at the pivot of the entire conflict.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Leicestershire