The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 1

The end of the Second Barons' War required closure and reconciliation, and it came in the Dictum of Kenilworth, need for the castle in which the last rebels held out against royalist assault, until Henry took a more diplomatic approach to ending the hostility.The Dictum was put together by a commission, created by Parliament, to contain three bishops and three barons. Those six selected an additional bishop, two earls, and three additional barons. Participants included a few names we've run into before: Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, and John Balliol. They were told to come up with a plan by All Saints' Day (1 November). They announced their solution on 31 October 1266.The chief aim of the Dictum was for Henry to regain his authority in defiance of the Provisions of Oxford that had been forced on him in exchange for raising the funds he wanted. It asserted his right to appoint his own ministers. He did re-affirm Magna Carta.The rebels were all land-owning men, and their…