King John dies in October 1216. His nine-year-old son Henry III is crowned King of England at Gloucester Cathedral. England is in turmoil; the Barons’ War is under way, and England loses its lands in France with the demise of the Angevin Empire.
Henry’s reign lasts from 1216 to 1272, and while he is on the throne, a new Church of St Peter is founded in the small Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted.
