![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. 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. ![]()
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