Name: Battle at Lewes Crown Event
Start: 2025-05-10T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-10T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Dreher Park

Monthly Crown Event Battle at Lewes
Event consists of Arts, Archery and Combat.
Opening Court at 9:45am
Sword Oath to immediately follow opening court
Armor and weapon inspection to immediately follow sword oath
Arts judging will commence 30 minutes after opening court
Archery will commence 1 hour after opening court.
Combat scenarios to be posted soon!
Archery scenarios to be posted soon!
Closing court 3pm.
Here's some history for you.
14 May 1264: Montfort crushes Henry III’s hapless army at Lewes - In the long list of royal catastrophes, the battle of Lewes holds an especially ignominious place. Like his father, the ill-starred John, Henry III had spent decades feuding with his barons while attempting to raise money. In particular, he found himself pitted against the ruthless Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who was determined to uphold the principles of Magna Carta and secure more power for England’s magnates.
Both sides had begun preparing for war in the early 1260s, but it was not until 14 May 1264 that their armies clashed in earnest. Montfort had cornered the royal army in the Sussex town of Lewes. The night before battle was joined, the barons’ leader slept not a wink, preferring instead to give his time “to divine offices and prayers and exhorting his men to make sincere confessions”.
Montfort need not have worried. When battle commenced the following day, the royal troops’ lack of discipline proved fatal. Though the king’s son, the future Edward I, led a stirring cavalry charge that broke his enemy’s left wing, he was unable to rally his men back to their positions. In the confusion, Montfort’s men crushed the rest of the king’s army. Henry himself – who was almost 50 years old – fought bravely, but to no avail. By evening, he and his son had retreated to Lewes Priory, and the following day they formally surrendered to Simon de Montfort. It was one of the most humiliating moments in Plantagenet history.
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