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The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made 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 that stretched from Scotland to Palestine. In this epic chronicle of courage, betrayal, ambition, and deceit, Dan Jones brings to life an unruly royal dynasty, each representative of which was a remarkable and memorable figure. The reader will see Henry II and his wife Alienora of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his treacherous brother King John, forced to sign the Magna Carta, Europe's first example of restricting royal arbitrariness. Combining the latest academic research with his gift as a storyteller, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crecy and Sleat and shows how Kings Edward II and Richard II met their final days. This is the age of chivalry and the Black Death, the Templars, the founding of Parliament and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword and the judge's hammer.
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