The Plantagenets : the kings who made England
Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. The name derived from Geoffrey's nickname, which came from the sprig of broom (planta genet) which he wore in his hat. The Plantagenets ruled England for more than three hundred years, from the accession of reign of the dynasty's founder, Matilda and Geoffrey's son, Henry II, in 1154, to the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485
Biographies
xxxix, 632 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
9780007213924, 9780007479733, 0007213921, 0007479735
774905538
Preface
Part one: Age of shipwreck (1120-1154) (The white ship ; Hunt for an heir ; The shipwreck ; Ambition ; A scandalous wife ; Henry the Conqueror ; Peace process)
Part two: Age of empire (Births and rebirth ; L'espace Plantagenet ; Unholy war ; Succession planning ; The eagle's nest ; Henry triumphant ; A world on fire ; New horizons ; Hero of the East ; Treachery ; At the Emperor's pleasure ; Return of the Lionheart ; Lackland supreme ; John Softsword ; Triumph and catastrophe ; Lackland undone)
Part three: Age of oppression (1204-1263) (Salvaging the wreck ; A stay-at-home king ; A cruel master ; Beginning of thye end ; To Bouvines ; Magna Carta ; Securing the inheritance ; From marshal to Magna Carta ; Kingship at last ; Marriage and family ; Holy kingship ; The road to war ; The provisions of Oxford)
Part four: The age of Arthur (Lewes ; From imprisonment to Evesham ; The leopard ; King at last ; A new Arthur ; The final stand ; The king's castles ; The price of conquest ; The expulsion of the Jews ; The great cause ; War on all fronts ; The conquest of Scotland ; Crisis point ; Relapse). Part five: Age of violence (The king and his brother ; Coronation ; Emergency ; The ordinances ; Manhunt ; Summer of promise ; Bannockburn ; New favourites ; Civil war ; The king's tyranny ; [Roger de] Mortimer [3rd Baron Mortimer, 1st Earl of March], Isabella and Prince Edward ; Endgame ; Abdication ; False dawn)
Part six: Age of glory (Royal coup ; Glorious king of a beggared kingdom ; New earls, new enemies ; The Hundred Years War begins ; Edward at sea ; The crisis of 1341 ; Dominance ; The death of a princess ; Chivalry reborn ; Decade of triumph)
Part seven: Age of revolution (The family business ; Unravelling fortunes ; The good parliament ; New king, old problems ; England in uproar ; Return to crisis ; Treason and trauma ; The reinvention of kingship ; Richard revenged ; Richard undone ; Richard alone)
Conclusion