plantagenets, 1154-1399

An epic history of the Plantagenet royal dynasty traces its first king's inheritance of a violence-stricken realm through the family's growth of a powerful empire that stretched from Scotland to Jerusalem.

While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.

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.

On t.p.: The turbulent history of medieval England and the Plantagenet kings (1216-1377). ..

History of the kings of England from the signing of the Magna Carta to the time of the black death taken from contemporary accounts such as the Barnwell chronicle, the chronicle of Thomas Wykes, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, the Lanercost chronicle, Choricon Gaslfridi le Baker de Swyndbroke, and others.

History of the kings of England from the signing of the Magna Carta to the time of the black death taken from contemporary accounts such as the Barnwell chronicle, the chronicle of Thomas Wykes, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, the Lanercost chronicle, Choricon Gaslfridi le Baker de Swyndbroke, and others.