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Philip Augustus and John: Two Sons in Innocent III’s Vineyard?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Brenda M. Bolton
Brenda M. Bolton*
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Queen Mary and Westfìeld College, University of London
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My debt to Michael Wilks is great indeed. A valued family friendship for over twenty years has survived interminable power-struggles played out on the Monopoly board, his two sons taking the lead. One other event involving his two sons forms part of Bolton family folklore when, following a barbecue in St Albans, a hedge suddenly went up in flames. Michael Wilks was soon to the fore in quelling the conflagration. Our friendship still survived! I have always been grateful for his wise advice and constant support in academic matters as in other ways. Since April 1985, we have shared a Special Subject on ‘The Pontificate of Innocent III’, each respecting the other’s opinions where they differed. This divergence was always grasped by our students, who have teasingly played us off against each other to the great enjoyment of all. My contribution to his Festschrift contains much that he will recognize. Here were two other sons, whose fire needed to be doused if the hedge of the Lord’s Vineyard was not to be destroyed. But more time for action was needed in Rome at the turn of the twelfth century than in St Albans in 1975!

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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 9: The Church and Sovereignty c.590-1918 , 1991 , pp. 113 - 134
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