De Montfort is famous for summoning the first “House of Commons”, a parliament made up of representatives elected from each city – an act which Winston Churchill believed “lighted a fire never to be ...
De Montfort’s Parliament of 1265 is often regarded as the forerunner of the modern Parliament.As always, it included barons and bishops – who sit nowadays as the House of Lords. But for the ...
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