The Plantagenets
the warrior kings and queens who made England
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Word Count
133,500 words, Guess
Page Count
534 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveplantagenetswarr0000jone_b8r9
- ISBN-100143124927
- ISBN-139780143124924
- OCLC Control Number852238325
- Better World Books9780143124924
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26886828M
Classifications
- DDC942.030922
- LCCDA225 .J76 2014
Alternate Titles
- Warrior kings and queens who made England
Description
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword.
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