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The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Created England

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The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Created England
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The first kings of the Plantagenet dynasty inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from their Norman ancestors and transformed it into an empire stretching from Scotland to Palestine. In this epic chronicle of courage, betrayal, ambition, and deceit, Dan Jones resurrects a rebellious royal dynasty, each member of which was a remarkable and memorable figure.

The reader will encounter: Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin on the Third Crusade; and his treacherous brother, King John, forced to sign the Magna Carta, Europe's first example of restraint on royal authority.

Combining the latest academic research with his gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluis, and shows how Kings Edward II and Richard II met their final days. 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 sword and gavel.
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