The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

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The son of John the Gaunt, Henry was seen as a confident, well-educated, generous, and spiritually fervent young man.

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Photograph: Katherine Rose Dan Jones has followed his acclaimed account of the Peasant’s Revolt, Summer of Blood, with a triumphant take on a colourful medieval dynasty. In 1295 he managed to drive together two enemies that were to remain in each other's arms for the following 365 years. Previously, I had believed that my connection with the throne of England ended with Henry III, who ascended the throne as a 9 year old after the death of his odious father, King John. It is a book that I would not hesitate to recommend to someone who does not already have a foundation in Plantagenet history. The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” ( The Wall Street Journal) —by the author of Powers and Thrones.

Dan Jones packs a heck of a lot of history into his book, and he sacrifices neither entertainment, humour, nor accuracy.

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Anna is not only of a good American family, but she is also descended from the Kings and Queens of England. It's not clear whether Gaveston was a “brother figure,” as Edward claimed, or if there was something more to their relationship, but everyone thought the Edward-Gaveston bromance was just too much. Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with confidence. Jones has produced an absorbing narrative that will help ensure that the Plantagenet story remains ‘stamped on the English imagination’ for another generation. The bad, or rather the ineffectual, are King John (isn’t he on every list of great historical baddies?The grandson of William the Conqueror, he was the only surviving legitimate son and heir of Henry I. R. Martin is known to have loosely based his epic on that conflict, you'll learn in this book that the Plantagenets and their rivals were playing a game of thrones long before then.