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The version that became part of the first English statute in 1297 was the one signed by King Henry III in 1225.
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He was king from 1272 on the death of his father Henry III.
CNN: Wednesday,
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Pope Gregory VII may have humiliated the Emperor Henry IV, as Innocent III later humiliated Philip Augustus of France and King John of England.
ECONOMIST: Medieval history
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In 1483, Britain's Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was beheaded at Salisbury for his rebellion against King Richard III.
CNN: Monday,
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Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, was killed in battle by the armies of rival noble Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, which took place in a field just outside Leicester in 1485.
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