Xxv, 534 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of platesīook review, English history, Medieval History, Plantagenets, Scottish history Bannockburn, Edward I, Edward II, Heroines of the Medieval World, John Comyn, Ladies of Magna Carta, Robert the Bruce, Scotland, Scottish Competitors, Scottish Wars of Independence, Sharon Bennett Connolly, Silk and the Sword, Stephen Spinks. Warrior kings and queens who made England 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 the sword. 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. The Plantagenets the warrior kings and queens who made England by Dan Jones
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