Summary: <p><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Things looked pretty good for the reformers in 1259; but at the heart of the reform movement were faultlines that weakened them, and made them vulnerable. The differing aims of the magnates; the avarice of de Montfort; and the fact that would pague the civil war 400 years later - how ever many times they defeated the king, he would still be the king. And in 1261, the royal fight back began.</span></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=D60qne3vTDA:guInpu41mNM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=D60qne3vTDA:guInpu41mNM:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=D60qne3vTDA:guInpu41mNM:qj6IDK7rITs"></a> </div>
