The Famine of 1258, the Samalas eruption of 1257 and the reign of Henry IIII
Coronation of Henry III Cotton Vitellius A. XIII courtesy of Wikipedia, in public domain. In this year, there was a failure of crops; upon which failure a famine ensued,to such a degree that people from the villages resorted to the city for food; and there upon the famine waxing still greater, many thousand perso...