English barons sympathetic to Young King Henry mustered across East Anglia to support the revolt, coordinating with Hugh Bigod at Framlingham and expecting support from Flanders. The muster was the largest baronial mobilization in England since the Anarchy and represented serious military threat to Henry II. It was this muster that led to the landing of Flemish mercenaries on the Suffolk coast.
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