Henry William Carless Davis

“ Peter died in 1238, and was buried at Winchester. He was undoubtedly a man of a winning personality, a good diplomat and financier, a statesman whose unpopularity was due in some measure to his freedom from the insularity of the Englishmen, against whom he matched himself. But his name is associated with a worthless clique of favourites, and with the first steps which were taken by Henry III. to establish a feeble and corrupt autocracy. ”

“ Lecointre Dupont, Pierre des Roches (Poitiers, 1868) ; Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, vol. ii; H. W. C. Davis, England under the Normans and Angevins (1905) ; T. F. Tout in the Political History of England, vol. in. ”