A decisive post-First Barons' War assertion of royal authority. Falkes de Bréauté had been one of John's most loyal mercenary captains but had overstayed his welcome under Henry III. When his men kidnapped a royal judge, Henry III besieged his castle personally. The entire garrison was hanged — eighty men. The fall of Bedford asserted that even the most powerful of John's mercenaries was subject to royal law.
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