The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made Engl

ISBN: 0670026654

Author: Jones, Dan

Condition: new

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britains greatest and worst dynasty-a real-life Game of Thrones (The Wall Street Journal)-by the author of The TemplarsThe 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 epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights. This is the era of chivalry, of Robin Hood and the Knights Templar, the Black Death, the founding of Parliament, the Black Prince, and the Hundred Years War. It will appeal as much to readers of Tudor history as to fans of Game of Thrones.

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