Falkes de Breaute, a mercenary captain who had served Henry III loyally, had his brother seize a royal judge. Henry III besieged Bedford Castle in response, an eight-week siege using all available military engineers. The castle was taken, the garrison hanged, and Falkes exiled. The siege marked Henry III's government reasserting control over unruly mercenary captains who had profited from the civil war.
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